The Morning Report - 2/17/21 [J.J. Sefton]

Good morning, kids. Wednesday and a number of things worthy of exploration this morning. First the knives are definitely out for Angel of Death Cuomo. While he continues to talk out of his sigmoid using his Emmy Award as a megaphone, the usual propaganda organs are not providing cover. The question is, what and/or who is behind this sudden torrent of truth and can he survive it politically? In any case, assuming this filthy mobbed up criminally incompetent tyrant exits the stage, willingly or not, the idea that someone who is not provably as or more leftist than he is will take the reins in Albany is a non-starter. Just as it is in California, where Gavin Newsom is likely to face a recall election.

Sad really because as we have seen for decades now, wherever Democrats control government, a trail of societal and economic destruction is the result. You can blame the political machines that wield absolute power and control over the bureaucracies and the electoral systems to a certain extent but ultimately, it's the fault of people who continually elect leftwing asshole after asshole who raise taxes, welcome illegal aliens, unlock the jails, regulate small businesses out of existence and brainwash children into subliterate robots forever dependent on The State. And then when these people flee the misery they brought upon themselves, they take their voting habits with them and elect the same leftist stooges to wreak havoc on the place they sought refuge. The lack of self-awareness is directly proportional to their shrieking at their new neighbors to "bake the damn cake" or "wear a mask."

Now, this little item while completely unsurprising is nevertheless enraging:

A left-wing activist facing criminal charges for his involvement in the Capitol riots received $35,000 from both CNN and NBC for footage he recorded of a Trump supporter being fatally shot inside the Capitol building, according to records he filed in federal court on Tuesday.
Lawyers for John Sullivan, a 26-year-old Utah native, disclosed the payments as part of the activist's argument that he was acting as a journalist in the Capitol rather than a rioter.
"Defendant is legitimately self-employed as a documentarian and it is oppressive to require that he not be allowed to continue his primary area of employment for an extended period of time," Steven R. Kiersh, the Sullivan lawyer, wrote in a court filing in which he argued for Sullivan to be allowed to continue using Facebook and Twitter.
Sullivan, who founded the social justice group Insurgence USA, was charged on Jan. 13 with illegally entering the Capitol, civil disorder, and violent or disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds."
Prosecutors cited video that Sullivan recorded inside the Capitol in which he called for burning down the building, while egging on others who had broken into the building.
"We accomplished this shit. We did this together. Fuck yeah! We are all a part of this history," he said in a video cited by prosecutors.
"Let's burn this shit down," he also allegedly said.

The question is did XiNN and NBC pay him before or after the fact? Given that Capitol Police were actually opening the doors and letting some of the goons in and the actions of DC Mayor Muriel Bowser before the fact in not beefing up security ahead of the rally, this latest revelation is kind of telling. But, naturally President-in-Exile Donald Trump as well as upwards of half to two thirds of this nation are to blame for a "violent insurrection" in an attempt to overthrow the government. Amazing how no matter how provably guilty and no matter how heinous the crime committed by Leftists, it always redounds on the victims.

Meanwhile, the Valerie Jarrett/Nazi collaborator George Soros-led junta speaking through its demented meat puppet Zhou Bai-Din, aka President Aqualung, is signaling (to me anyway) an actual purge of perhaps several thousand people.

Biden said, "I got involved in politics, to begin with because of civil rights and opposition to white supremacist, the Ku Klux Klan and the most dangerous people on America continue to exist. That is the greatest threat of terror in America, domestic terror. So I would make sure my Justice Department and the Civil Rights Division is focused heavily on those very folks. I would make sure we focus on how to deal with the rise of white supremacy. You see what's happening the studies that are beginning to be done, maybe at your university as well, about the impact of former military, former police officers on the growth of white supremacy in some of these groups."
He added, "You may remember in one of my debates from the former president, I asked him to condemn the Proud Boys he wouldn't do. It he said stand standby and stand, ready whatever the phrase exactly was. It is a bane on our existence. It has always been as Lincoln said we have to you appear to a battle angels these guys are not and women they are in fact demented. They are dangerous people."

I can picture him fighting with Robert Byrd and Herman Talmadge. Oh wait, they were his best friends! Couple this with Malig-Nancy Pelosi's declaration of wanting some sort of 9/11-style commission to investigate the Black Wednesday Reichstag Fire "riot" that made her allegedly shit her girdle so bad it left stains on Titty Caca Ocasio-Cortez's dress three buildings away. Considering the 9/11 commission accomplished nothing except creating an entire new federal law enforcement bureaucracy - thanks Dubya!! - that does nothing but molest and impede the citizenry while apologizing to Islamists for us infidels not dying fast enough, given the current political climate, this one scares the crap out of me insofar as what the already predetermined findings will be:

Anyone who does not swear some sort of allegiance to the Democrat Party, renounce Trump, "whiteness," perusing websites like Ace of Spades and Cut Jib Newsletter, sing the Black National Anthem while holding your child down as his/her gender is reassigned, surrender all weapons and ammunition etc. etc. will have to face the music. Prison? Maybe for some. For most, the prison of being denied goods, services and money from the State-owned company store, i.e. Amazon and Bank of America as well as the US Treasury in the form of denied bennies. Along with taking out Trump, the lockdowns wiped out a large swathe of the American economy: small businesses. One of Bob Ross' happy accidents, so to speak.

Whether the Junta is doing this out of actual fear or merely paranoia makes no difference. This is getting real. G-d help them if we ever do give them something to wet their diapers about. Inshalla...

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Rigged, like an exploding gas tank... and the 2020 elections.
CNN, NBC Paid Left-wing Capitol Rioter $35,000 Each for Footage of Violence
If this isn't a heads-up as to the Junta's next victims, I don't know what it. Is it justified fear or Stalin's paranoia? Either way...
Biden: Former Military, Police Fueling "Growth of White Supremacy" Groups
"These books, and the mandarin class that writes and interprets them, are the real law, determining what is permitted and what is forbidden."
The Second Set of Books
"How business makes a sucker of Middle America."
Our Enemy: The Boardroom
"Pence was perfectly suited to be vice president... for Mitt Romney."
How Loyal Was Mike Pence?

* * * * *
"Freezing temperatures have paralyzed power generation plants, leading to rolling blackouts across the south-central part of the country and leaving millions without power."
Jen Piss-Hockey: Joe Biden Has Not Spoken Personally to Governors Affected by Winter Storms
"Far too many Texans are without power and heat for their homes as our state faces freezing temperatures and severe winter weather. This is unacceptable."
Texas Governor, House Speaker Call for Emergency Probe of Failing Power Grid
PRESIDENT-IN-EXILE TRUMP POST-PRESIDENCY SOVIET SHOW TRIAL/IMPEACHMENT & ACQUITTAL AFTERMATH
"The hoax is the claim, by Democrats and the mainstream media, that Trump called violent neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia 'very fine people' in remarks in 2017."
Trump Lawyer Believed "Very Fine People" Hoax Until Trial Prep
"Last week was nothing short of a warning to Trump supporters and Republicans to get with the Democrat program -- or else."
Impeachment Was Nothing but Spectacle and Political Theater... Just Like It Was Designed to Be
Et tu, Utah?
Utah GOP Rejects Efforts to Censure Romney for Impeachment Vote
"Impeachment proved the left wishes to force their agenda no matter what, even if it means falsifying a few videos or a few tweets in the U.S. Senate."
What Impeachment Showed About the Left's Four Years of Insatiable Thirst for Power
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Don't let progressive's fool you. They aren't talking about ideas; they're talking about people."
When Progressives Say "Whiteness" They Mean "White People"
"Is it possible to create parallel Americas without instigating a separation?"
Are Democrats Creating Two Americas?
DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST & RINO SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
"It's over."
George Conway, Kurt Bardella Call on Lincoln Catamite Procurement Project to Shut Down
"Greg Nitzkowski, the firm's managing partner of more than two decades, donated $3,000 to the Lincoln Project in 2020, according to federal election records. Elena Baca, who chairs the firm's employment law department, has donated almost $2,000 to the Lincoln Project."
Senior Partners at Firm Hired to "Review" Lincoln Project Scandal Have Donated Thousands to Group (sounds like a self-sucking boy penis making both ends meet - jjs)
POLITICS
"I think it would be appropriate to take a hard look at that."
Former NY Gov. Pataki: New York Should Consider Law to Recall Angel of Death Cuomo
"Led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY [jelly]), the Republican establishment appears to be set on trying to somehow expunge President Trump and the Make America Great Again movement from the GOP. History tells us that's a horrible idea for Republicans, and an horrendous idea for the nation."
The Republican Establishment is Engaging in Political Suicide.
"Considering what McConnell said about Trump, the only surprise is that Trump waited so long to speak up."
Trump Goes Nuclear on Mitch McConnell
"Trump blasted McConnell for his familial ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and asserted that his biggest regret was bailing McConnell out when he was 20 points down in his Kentucky primary."
O.G. Trump Throws Down on "Dour Hack," China-Linked Mitch McConnell
"He may be down, but he is certainly not out of favor with the GOP. Twice impeached, vilified by Democrats in the trial, and virtually silenced by social media... despite it all, Donald Trump keeps a solid foothold in the Republican Party."
Poll: 75% of Republicans Want Trump to Play Prominent Role in GOP
"Biden and Democrat governors' approach couldn't be more different than the one this Republican governor has taken."
Life in DeSantis' Florida: Time Travel to America
"Where were the suits now pulling out of GOP donations when Democrats ignored due process in the 2018 Justice Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings?"
Big Corporate Yanks Funds From Republicans While Funding Democrats Who Abused Due Process In Kavanaugh Hearings
"There it is, hiding in plain sight: An astonishing six-part plan to make America into a one-party state."
Woke Politics: The Democrats' Plan for a Permanent Majority
"Can the Republicans show some steel and fend off Democrat tyranny?"
What the Dems' Prospects Are Without Donald Trump
"Even more effective than breaking the rules is changing them in your favor."
Trump Fought the Swamp and the Swamp Won
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Have liberals become as numerous as the stars of heaven?"
How Mail-In Voting Affected the 2020 Election
"Election watchdog calls settlement a check on voter fraud." (great timing - jjs)
Michigan Removes 177,000 Voters From Voter Rolls After Legal Challenge
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
Molly McCaughey: "Emergency powers should last for a few weeks or maybe a month -- long enough to keep the public safe until the Legislature can swing into action. Instead, the governor has wielded emergency powers for 11 months -- and for what? One of the worst [Chinese] COVID performances in the nation."
Gov. Angel of Death Cuomo Has Wielded Dictatorial Powers Long Enough
Jeffrey Lord: "Vindication for having the guts to stand up to Gov. [Angel of Death] Cuomo."
Janice Dean: Profile in Courage
"The disastrous results of [Angel of Death] Cuomo's nursing-home policy are finally revealed."
False Hero of the Pandemic
Julie Kelly: "Hailed as a hero for months due to his theatrical handling of the crisis, Cuomo now is under long-delayed but well-deserved scrutiny for his incompetence and apparent cover-up of nursing home data."
Another Deadly Decision by Angel of Death Cuomo: Ventilators

* * * * *
"We don't know for certain." (who's this "we?" - jjs)
Biden Predicts Pandemic Won't Be Over for Another Year
"Bullshit! Bullshit!"
Fox News' Larry Kudlow Caught on Hot Mic Cursing Over Kamala Harris' Vaccine Distribution Claims
"The bottom line still remains. In almost all ways the overall impact of [Chinese] COVID-19 closely matches that of the flu. We can argue numbers about whether it is worse, but that doesn't change the entire picture."
An Update on Chinese Coronavirus From an Arizona Doctor
"The full House may pass the legislation as soon as next week, but it could face hurdles in the Senate, where Democrats can't afford to lose a single member of their party thanks to the 50-50 split in the chamber."
House Democrats Have Proposed a New $1.9 Trillion Chinese COVID Relief Package. Here's What's In It.
"The coming weeks will see a flurry of old-fashioned horse trading -- some would call it corruption -- in Washington, as Democrats attempt to pass a partisan 'stimulus' bill."
Why Joe Biden's "Stimulus" Could Be the Most Pork-Filled Crony Christmas Ever
"2020 was the year of government overreach. Make 2021 the year of organized civil disobedience and friendly reunions."
The Pandemic Is Over
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The comments were featured in a story published by The Hollywood Reporter about Disney's recent firing of conservative actress Gina Carano. The publication noted that publicists have advised their clients to 'steer clear of politics, especially anything leaning right.'"
Crisis PR Consultant: "Anything" That Offends the Left "A Problem," My Clients Work Hard to Please Them
"The Left wants to rewrite our history."
Gov. Kristi Noem Criticizes MSNBC's Joy Reid
"On cue, CNN and Politico insisted that yesterday, February 15th, was the real first day of the Biden regime. The claim is made as a result of Congress' decision to waste a month (and millions of dollars) trying to impeach and remove President Trump (again)."
Here Are the 56 Executive Actions Biden Has Signed While the Media Tell You His Work Hasn't Started Yet
"In states across the country, politicians have increasingly demanded that charities and nonprofit organizations reveal the names and addresses of top supporters and donors."
South Dakota Bill Would Help Starve Cancel Culture By Letting People Donate Privately
"The Harvard campaign is typical, demanding that these Republicans be banned merely because they exercised not only their first amendment rights of free speech, but their duly elected responsibilities as elected officials."
Today's Blacklisted Americans: Ivy League Students Demand Revocation of All Degrees Earned by Republican Politicians
SECOND AMENDMENT
"The revelation was made during a White House press conference on Tuesday in response to a statement that Biden put out last week calling for banning semi-automatic firearms in addition to other gun control measures."
Biden Won't Rule Out Using Executive Orders to Crackdown on Second Amendment Rights: White House
ABORTION
This is the same Cardinal Burke who said in August that Biden "is not a Catholic in good standing and he should not approach to receive Holy Communion."
Card. Burke: Codifying Roe v. Wade in Federal Law is Part of the Evil One's "Program of Lies and Death"
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Other countries in West Africa are on high alert."
Guinea Declares Ebola Epidemic, Reporting First Deaths Since 2016 Outbreak
"It is bizarre for a vice president [even a usurper fraud] to be making contact with key world leaders just weeks into a new administration."Kamala Harris is Now Making Joe Biden's Head of State Calls for Him
"Biden's initial posturing regarding Israel is foolish, given that Donald Trump's pro-Israel approach made significant progress towards peace."
Biden Set To Revive Obama's Devastating Middle East Foreign Policy
Netanyahu opponent Sa'ar was "falling in the polls consistently since he hired" Lincoln Project advisors.
Netanyahu Rival Cuts Ties With Lincoln Project Advisers As Anti-Trump Group Implodes Over Sexual Exploitation
"I'm a hostage and this villa has been converted into a jail. All the windows are barred shut, I can't open any window."
UAE Princess Held Hostage by Dubai Ruler Sends Secret Messages to Friends Detailing Conditions
"On one side, Islamist jihad. On the other, China."
Pakistan Feeds Two Crocodiles
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Rare-earth minerals are critical in the construction of everything from smartphones to fighter jets. China knows that and is examining ways they can limit exports to the U.S. as a means to pressure Washington."
China Looking at Rare-Earth Export Curbs to Strangle U.S. Defense Industries
"The brain drain that spawns its heavy cost."
Re-Islamization is Stunting Turkish Mental Growth
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE
"They are a gateway drug on the road to spending addiction."
Democrats to Bring Back (Corrupt) Earmarks
"'Equity' is the buzzword of the new constitution trying to strangle the old one. It holds that government must treat Americans differently according to identity politics categories."
Democrats' Demands For "Equity" Are Really a Demand to Amp Up Government Discrimination
""Equity" is to 'equality' what 'social justice' is to 'justice.'"
"Equity": Reparations by Another Name
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
It means Tom Cotton is either a complete naif or will not object when the ban on illegals is stripped out of the bill.
Sens. Romney, Cotton to Introduce Bill to Raise Minimum Wage, Ban Businesses from Hiring Illegal Aliens: What Would This Mean?
"Their policies often punish the most vulnerable, the very people they say they want to help."
Do Dems' Care Minimum-Wage Hike Will Devastate Poor, Minorities?
"The 'stay at home to protect lives' logic did not stop the virus, but did trample the booming economy, dragging down the most vulnerable women with it."
Government Lockdowns, Not The Virus, Booted Millions Of Women From The Workforce
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"For years, they've been taking money under the table from China, Qatar, and elsewhere."
Time to End Hostile Powers' Influence Operations at American Universities
"It's a fact of Democrat-run cities: If a single official accountable to the public isn't in charge of public schools, teachers' unions will run the system to suit themselves -- the children's needs be damned."
Lori Lightfoot Talks Truth on Teacher Union Entitlement
"Judicial Watch sued on behalf of high school football coach David Flynn, who was fired from his job for raising concerns about the Black Lives Matter and Critical Race Theory-focused curricula being taught in his daughter's 7th-grade history class."
FIGHTING BACK: Principal Sued After Firing Coach For Opposing Marxism
"A New York college prep school sent white parents literary materials asking them to identify their level of whiteness, from 'white supremacist' to 'white abolitionist.'"
New York School Principal Urges Parents to Become "White Abolitionists" With Propaganda Graphic
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Our intrepid science reporter: "So Axiom will build its private station for about $1 billion, and get it done in about five years. NASA spent anywhere from $100 to $200 billion, and took more than three decades to get it launched and built."
Axiom Raises $130 Million in Investment Capital
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand."
Bill Gates: Rich Countries Should Be Eating 100% Synthetic Beef
"The very green Germans have major concerns regarding their dependence on renewables."
As Germans Freeze, Leading Newspaper Calls Green Energy Strategy "A Dangerous Miscalculation"
"Texas' disastrous experience is a cautionary tale for the northeast."
When Wind Power Freezes
"If you walk around any street now you will see disposable face masks being blown around with leaves in the gutter -- they are the new cigarette butt -- people are chucking them after use."
Unintended Consequences: Mask Mandates Resulting in "Mask Pollution"
"When powerful beliefs regarding temporal matters are grounded in dubious claims or specious facts, the result will not be enduring truth or justice, but instead superstition, bigotry, and in too many instances, outright cruelty."
Sacrifice to Superstition: Euthanizing Fuel Industry Jobs
"We must be wary when we hear 'the science says...,' as we too often only take facts on faith if they support the policies of our preferred political party."
What Does "The Science" Say? It's Getting Harder to Tell
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Biden's new orders threaten to upend science and fairness in many segments of American society, including women's sports, women's private spaces, the military, and medicine. Republicans in at least 13 states are fighting back."
The Backlash to Biden's Transgender Agenda Is Already Brewing
"I spent a week trying to become contemporary feminist and queer theorists' picture of a perfect man."
Observing the Laws of the New Masculinity
"Blues Clues has taken on a new topic outside the traditional realm of simple numbers, shapes, and letters: social justice activism of gender dysphoria."
The New Blues Clues is a Woke Puppy Peddling Gender Identity Propaganda to Children
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Dennis Prager: "Those who acknowledge how flawed human nature is compare America to reality. Those who do not, compare America to some utopian image: a country free of inequality, prejudices, intolerance, sexual misbehavior, greed, etc. This divide helps explain why those who hold a biblical worldview -- usually religious Jews and Christians -- are more likely to appreciate America than those who do not. "
Given How Flawed Human Nature Is, America Has Been a Remarkable Moral Achievement
Christian Toto: "A homeless woman threatens a childless couple, but the state offers bigger scares."
Clunky Paradise Cove Shows Folly of California's Progressive Policies
"As a Chinese immigrant watching my first pro game, it was obvious to me that such pride and patriotism wasn't coerced by the state, but a genuine expression by free people."
Here's Why This Immigrant Loves Singing the National Anthem at Games
"The elevation of every world culture as 'equally meritorious' has created a deep inequality in our own."
What Multiculturalism Has Wrought
Lloyd Billingsley: "By recognizing some of America's greatest writers and artists."
Make Black History Month Inclusive

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1 We're boxed in!

Posted by: Tami at February 17, 2021 07:36 AM (cF8AT)

2 Morning horde

Posted by: iandeal at February 17, 2021 07:36 AM (ysYn+)

3 Also Sponge!

Posted by: Tami at February 17, 2021 07:36 AM (cF8AT)

4 such a gray day... i'm feeling boxed in...

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 17, 2021 07:36 AM (8D42x)

5 Good morning all. Boxy in here.

Posted by: Rosasharn at February 17, 2021 07:37 AM (yEBFM)

6 How many candles on the birthday cake by now, J.J.?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 17, 2021 07:37 AM (Dc2NZ)

7 JJ What day is it?

Hump Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 07:38 AM (yrol0)

8 Mornin' Horde!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 17, 2021 07:38 AM (scYml)

9 Dont Californicate My Texas

And then when these people flee the misery they brought upon themselves, they take their voting habits with them and elect the same leftist stooges to wreak havoc on the place they sought refuge. The lack of self-awareness is directly proportional to their shrieking at their new neighbors to "bake the damn cake" or "wear a mask."

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 07:39 AM (yrol0)

10 The law firm investigating the Man-Boy Lincoln Association being a major donor to said association is very on-brand for The Swamp.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2021 07:39 AM (6XLoz)

11 It's likely that Harris/Biden are behind the efforts to kneecap Cuomo.

I would have thought it was Cuomo getting the bad news out but he doesn't seem to have a planned response.

Posted by: MJ at February 17, 2021 07:41 AM (gAMkn)

12 Mornin', all! Got up to do the normal things since we are back to a normal NW MO winter and all the normal things have canceled. Sigh. Thanks for the news, JJ, and Happy Birthday!

Dont Californicate My Texas

And then when these people flee the misery they brought upon themselves, they take their voting habits with them and elect the same leftist stooges to wreak havoc on the place they sought refuge. The lack of self-awareness is directly proportional to their shrieking at their new neighbors to "bake the damn cake" or "wear a mask."
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 07:39 AM (yrol0)
When Trump relocated the Dep of Ag to KC, I breathed a big sigh of relief when 60% of the agency retired rather than move to Cowtown. We dodged a serious bullet there.

Posted by: Catherine at February 17, 2021 07:43 AM (CNUbv)

13 Buen dia dear morons

A lot of dangerous talk coming from Baiden

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2021 07:43 AM (EZebt)

14 SWEEP AWAY ALL MONSTERS AND DEMONS!!!

Posted by: Communist Party of China, June 1966 at February 17, 2021 07:43 AM (49Dnm)

15 It's likely that Harris/Biden are behind the efforts to kneecap Cuomo.

Harris and Biden don't use the toilet without orders from Rice and Jarrett. But yes, this is absolutely the Obama faction knocking off Clinton Inc operative Cuomo. It started right after a poll came out indicating Dems would vote for Cuomo in the next primary and Biden/Harris would both lose badly.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2021 07:43 AM (6XLoz)

16 willowed on the ONT:

A short, simple explanation as to why Texas went in for wind power: First, let's just point out that there was never any need for it, it was a Corporate Fashion Accessory.

then, factor in that Texas has a lot of competing energy companies, and that the Feds offered very lucrative subsidies to anyone who would build wind power, without any regard as to its viability. (It was Holy, so could not be questioned) Lots of empty land in West Texas where no one would complain about uglifying the landscape with these behemoths. It made all the dems extremely happy, and it made all the GOP-e grifters even more happy, since they had a hand in the permitting payoffs, the construction payoffs, the subsidy payoffs. When the public asked "why, though?" they would show all the great Supply numbers and give a speech about Energy Diversity and if you weren't impressed by that, or tried to question it, then you were some kind of troglodyte.

It was guaranteed to make a fortune for everyone! And suddenly, this week, their Titanic hit an iceberg blown down from the north.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 07:43 AM (bxPTJ)

17 6 How many candles on the birthday cake by now, J.J.?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at February 17, 2021 07:37 AM (Dc2NZ)

Enough to immolate the cake and heat up TX to normal temps.

(Ducks, runs)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 07:44 AM (49Dnm)

18 so the dickhole in office really wants to try and ban guns via an EO? he really didn't pay attention to US history did he? i can't see how they imagine this is going to work. the registration drive in CT got less than 5% compliance, AND THEY KNEW WHERE THE GUNS WERE... i can't imagine there'll be much in the way of actual compliance. but it'll move the time table up on the sporty bit of time that coming...

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 17, 2021 07:44 AM (8D42x)

19 Waiting until your citizens are freezing to death to start an investigation into why your citizens are freezing to death is an excellent 5 year plan.

Posted by: f'd at February 17, 2021 07:45 AM (h3392)

20 Looks like the shooting started, finally.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 17, 2021 07:45 AM (nkc1K)

21 The GOP still hasn't done anything to convince me they have a plan for dealing with the election fraud.

They just expect me to accept it and then come back and vote for them again.

Nope.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 17, 2021 07:45 AM (0RFCO)

22 CRUSH MADAME MAO AND THE GANG OF FOUR!

Posted by: Communist Party of China, June 1976 at February 17, 2021 07:45 AM (EZebt)

23 You see what's happening the studies that are beginning to be done, maybe at your university as well, about the impact of former military, former police officers on the growth of white supremacy in some of these groups...They are dangerous people.

Well, if anything they're consistent. They're broadcasting the targets.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 17, 2021 07:46 AM (5XK0y)

24 Regarding the wind turbines in Texas, my favorite photo so far is of an oil-powered helicopter spraying oil-based de-icer on one. The libs on Twitter are really cranky about people passing that one around.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2021 07:46 AM (6XLoz)

25 I'm tired of fresh hell each day. Can't we go back to the hells we've known? Not having a good day, and I've only been up 2.5 hours...

Posted by: Rosasharn at February 17, 2021 07:46 AM (yEBFM)

26 Wait....

It's J.J.'s birthday?

Damn....seems like it was just yesterday.

Well, anyhow.
Happy Birthday, J.J.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2021 07:46 AM (3D/fK)

27 16: BUT, that empty landscape has people like me out there. I so look forward to gazing upward to...flashing red lights at night.

(And the thing is that the energy market is only PARTLY deregulated. In Houston you have a choice of electric UTILITIES. In San Antonio? You got CPS and...that's it. Here, I got a electric co-op and...that's it.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 07:46 AM (49Dnm)

28 Might I ask the obvious before deigning to engage - these conversations are very Fettered, yes?

Posted by: Common Tater at February 17, 2021 07:47 AM (/krQw)

29 Posted by: Rosasharn at February 17, 2021 07:46 AM (yEBFM)

I haven't been around if you posted this, but I was wondering about the status of your husband, dear.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2021 07:47 AM (VP4Cd)

30 If Texas is freezing, shouldn't everyone go outside and start their cars and trucks, to pump some greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere? I was told those emissions warmed the climate.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 17, 2021 07:47 AM (nkc1K)

31 Credit where it's due, DeSantis came out strong on liberty when it mattered. I didn't think he had it in him, so I've definitely gained some respect in the last few months.

Posted by: CppThis at February 17, 2021 07:47 AM (zcf1k)

32 That is the greatest threat of terror in America, domestic terror.

PS Before it is over 75 Million people will be declared domestic terrorist!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 07:47 AM (yrol0)

33 Biden will soon get a call from the governors of Washington and Oregon. They need billions and billions to run their states and just taxing more doesn't do it, they need the money now. Biden will send them a few billion out of his slush fund?

Posted by: Colin at February 17, 2021 07:47 AM (geBEv)

34 The power crisis in Texas is a perfect candidate for a case study. TX doesn't import power from any other state -- they stand alone. This makes a perfect example of what an entire country would be like. They had what - 20% - of their power coming from renewables? Not just wind but solar too -and they are failing at epic proportions.
This is a fantastic opportunity to shove this back into the faces of the green energy lovers on why we can't rely on wind and solar. Supplement - sure ok.

I wish no ill will on any of the Texans suffering, well except maybe for the greenie libtards who think wind/solar will save humanity. Stay frosty, friends.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 17, 2021 07:47 AM (N39Ws)

35 That quote by Stinkfinger is complete gibberish and not comprehensible English. Like raimondo...

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 07:48 AM (y7DUB)

36 22 CRUSH MADAME MAO AND THE GANG OF FOUR!

CRUSH THE PEOPLE!!! OPEN FIRE AT TIANANMEN UNTIL THE GUNS MELT WHITE HOT ON THEIR MOUNTS!!!

Posted by: Communist Party of China, June 1989 at February 17, 2021 07:48 AM (49Dnm)

37 I had a couple of salesmen come to my door about a week ago wanting to sell solar panels. I told them no. One was a fat chick and the other looked like a fag.

What idiot buys those things? I remember when Archie Bunker got bamboozled into buying aluminum siding for his house. Hilarity ensued.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2021 07:48 AM (R/m4+)

38 32 That is the greatest threat of terror in America, domestic terror.

PS Before it is over 75 Million people will be declared domestic terrorist!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 07:47 AM (yrol0)
I didn't watch his speech, but did I read that the largest percentage of "domestic terrorists" are former military and LEO?Is that how unity is defined?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 17, 2021 07:49 AM (N39Ws)

39 One was a fat chick and the other looked like a fag.

Would you have bought them if the woman had been a slim chick and the other had been a manly man?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2021 07:50 AM (VP4Cd)

40 Seems like as good a time as any to roll out that Floyd Ferris quote:

"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

Posted by: blaster at February 17, 2021 07:50 AM (ZfRYq)

41 day 4, since symptoms appeared, of corona update, so this morning i woke up and felt normal as all get out. now a slightly clogged nostril and the lingering asthma cough, but that's been a function of my life for 10 years.

I know this has been much more sever for a lot of people, including my father who survived thank god, but i have to say, i've had normal head colds that were far worse. at least so far. we'll see if it goes down hill from here.

and for the record, a daily emergen-C, Ziacam 3 times over the day, and echinacea x3 - 3 times per day appear to really help. but that's just me.

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 17, 2021 07:50 AM (8D42x)

42 I can picture him fighting with Robert Byrd and Herman Talmadge. Oh wait, they were his best friends!

Back in his sentient days he always was a lying piece of dogshit. Chyna Joe gave the eulogy at Byrd's funeral, if IIRC. Did he have to learn and include some ceremonial KKK phrases?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 17, 2021 07:50 AM (nkc1K)

43 I wish no ill will on any of the Texans suffering, well except maybe for the greenie libtards who think wind/solar will save humanity. Stay frosty, friends.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 17, 2021 07:47 AM (N39Ws)

Oh, my Leftist friends on my periscope - FB - are all in a rage over it. One of them posted an article from Texas Tribune, who are people that, if they had their way, EVERY Texan would be in the dark because they HATE energy production. Another is busy blasting the illegal political party, as usual. I don't know where Ted Cruz is to blame, but OK. But she likewise supports the ONLY legal political party in the country, that HATES ANY energy production with a PASSION.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 07:51 AM (49Dnm)

44 Would you have bought them if the woman had been a slim chick and the other had been a manly man?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2021 07:50 AM (VP4Cd)

Ummmmmm....No.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2021 07:51 AM (R/m4+)

45 Boker Fuckin Tov

I am so sick of hearing from the left about white extremism in the Military. I am in the fucking Military every fuckin day, and the Military is the least prejudice organization I have ever been associate with. It's a slur on the Military and all who serve. Fuck you sundown and fuck you austin

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2021 07:51 AM (dMIF+)

46 Sharkman, if you're still around, thanks for that link at the end of the ONT on the Challenger crew. It was very interesting.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 07:51 AM (O+I8R)

47 The GOP still hasn't done anything to convince me they have a plan for dealing with the election fraud.

They just expect me to accept it and then come back and vote for them again.

Nope.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 17, 2021 07:45 AM (0RFCO)

And what to do when your state wasn't the problem? MO representation (other than the worthless Blunt) did what they could. I don't want to punish Hawley, who tried, or my rep, who eventually did a little something. But I have no way of affecting the idiocy in GA. I figure I'll be voting locally against incumbents, but term limits in MO mean they aren't often on the ballot. My state's lack of issues weirdly leaves me feeling helpless.

Posted by: Catherine at February 17, 2021 07:51 AM (CNUbv)

48 That is the greatest threat of terror in America, domestic terror.

Fuck that guy in particular. He hasn't had an original thought in his entire life. That's the mantra of every communist regime and it's structured solely to facilitate the purge. I only hope he live long enough to see and feel what he unleashes.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 17, 2021 07:52 AM (5XK0y)

49 The GOP still hasn't done anything to convince me they have a plan for dealing with the election fraud.

They just expect me to accept it and then come back and vote for them again.

Nope.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 17, 2021 07:45 AM (0RFCO)

Dan Crenshaw didn't convince you? HR 1 should make the fraud permanent.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 07:53 AM (y7DUB)

50 Everything Biden does is illegitimate. It has to be treated as such. By every normal state's governors and legislatures. They'd better get the ball rolling now, because the sh*t that's coming from this goo brain is coming fast and furious.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 07:53 AM (O+I8R)

51 That quote by Stinkfinger is complete gibberish and not comprehensible English. Like raimondo...
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 07:48 AM (y7DUB)

so, i'm not the only one who nearly had a stroke trying to read it?

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 17, 2021 07:53 AM (8D42x)

52 Counsel
of
Unreliable
Nergy
it
Texas

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 07:53 AM (yrol0)

53 45 Boker Fuckin Tov

I am so sick of hearing from the left about white extremism in the Military. I am in the fucking Military every fuckin day, and the Military is the least prejudice organization I have ever been associate with. It's a slur on the Military and all who serve. Fuck you sundown and fuck you austin
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2021 07:51 AM (dMIF+)

WORD.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 07:54 AM (49Dnm)

54 The GOP still hasn't done anything to convince me they have a plan for dealing with the election fraud.

They just expect me to accept it and then come back and vote for them again.

Nope.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 17, 2021 07:45 AM (0RFCO)

Unless we outlaw mail in voting with out any purging of the voter rolls and signiture verification, there will never be. It will be wholesale theft and we better get good at thievery

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2021 07:54 AM (dMIF+)

55 30 If Texas is freezing, shouldn't everyone go outside and start their cars and trucks, to pump some greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere? I was told those emissions warmed the climate.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 17, 2021 07:47 AM (nkc1K)

and turn your gas oven to 500 and open the door

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 07:54 AM (yrol0)

56 I haven't been around if you posted this, but I was wondering about the status of your husband, dear.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Sending you an email. Thanks.

Posted by: Rosasharn at February 17, 2021 07:55 AM (yEBFM)

57 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 17, 2021 07:55 AM (arJlL)

58 I am so sick of hearing from the left about white extremism in the Military. I am in the fucking Military every fuckin day, and the Military is the least prejudice organization I have ever been associate with. It's a slur on the Military and all who serve. Fuck you sundown and fuck you austin
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2021 07:51 AM (dMIF+)

I know this is hurtful for those who are in the military, or have loved ones there - but the US Armed Forces have gone full on woke. Don't get me wrong, the people in the military aren't the problem, but they will be part of the Solution.

I graduated from the United States Military Academy. An institution that I am now informed is racist producing white supremacists for the racist Army. The SecDef a member of the class of 75 is promoting this calumny.

I want nothing to do with it. I am sorely tempted to send my ring back.

Posted by: blaster at February 17, 2021 07:55 AM (ZfRYq)

59 This latest propaganda is Herb Marcuse, Ted Adorno, Max Horkheimer - the "Frankfurt School" of communists who were kicked out by the you know whos and were allowed to emigrate to America. They set up shop at the Universities and set about destroying the USA. This shows their gratitude at escaping almost certain death, naturally. You may remember a slogan "Make Love Not War", that was Marcuse if I remember correctly.

We studied this at University in depth. It is bizarre to see it mainstreamed. Now you know what all those "think tanks" and Institutes For Social Research have been doing all these years with your money and your children.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 17, 2021 07:55 AM (/krQw)

60 This John Williams stuff is right out of "Network".

Posted by: pawn at February 17, 2021 07:55 AM (ogSaj)

61 37 I had a couple of salesmen come to my door about a week ago wanting to sell solar panels. I told them no. One was a fat chick and the other looked like a fag.

What idiot buys those things? I remember when Archie Bunker got bamboozled into buying aluminum siding for his house. Hilarity ensued.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2021 07:48 AM (R/m4+)

If I had loads of money I'd look into it as a Plan B. Not something I'd want my factories and utilities reliant on, though.

One of the things that the dirty non-hardware peasants often overlook is just how much of the world's productive activity--and thus energy consumption--has absolutely nothing to do with residential/consumer nonsense. Rich liberals may only need a few hours of juice when they get home from their soulless office-drone corporate job but city blocks full of big, glorious, majestic machinery and servers are chugging away 24/7 on the other side of town to maintain their comfortable standard of living.

Posted by: CppThis at February 17, 2021 07:55 AM (zcf1k)

62 How this dimwit makes it across the street is beyond me....

@AOC

The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don't* pursue a Green New Deal.

Oh and just to further depress you it has 180K likes.

Posted by: Tami at February 17, 2021 07:56 AM (cF8AT)

63 Dan Crenshaw didn't convince you?

.....

I won't speak ill of a veteran, never having served myself.

But I don't mind if other veterans do.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 17, 2021 07:56 AM (0RFCO)

64 And what to do when your state wasn't the problem? MO representation (other than the worthless Blunt) did what they could. I don't want to punish Hawley, who tried, or my rep, who eventually did a little something. But I have no way of affecting the idiocy in GA. I figure I'll be voting locally against incumbents, but term limits in MO mean they aren't often on the ballot. My state's lack of issues weirdly leaves me feeling helpless.
Posted by: Catherine at February 17, 2021 07:51 AM (CNUbv)

Are you kidding? Sounds like y'all in MO are taking care of business. Make sure your house doesn't go to hell like in GA and that helps a great deal.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 07:57 AM (49Dnm)

65 The straw the breaks the camel's back (heh) is about to be placed. Stand by.

Posted by: AJ Duie at February 17, 2021 07:57 AM (VFH7M)

66 I had a couple of salesmen come to my door about a week ago wanting to sell solar panels. I told them no. One was a fat chick and the other looked like a fag.

What idiot buys those things?
More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2021 07:48 AM (R/m4+)

I have a friend who's an electrician and has been looking into those. he says that now, for PERSONAL home use, and staying connected to the grid, they aren't a bad investment, depending on local weather averages. here in HR, he says they make sense to reduce energy bills, but you don't want to cut off the power company for sure. some of it is subsidized so that helps cover the cost too.

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 17, 2021 07:57 AM (8D42x)

67
Power is back on at Schloss Hadrian but we had a pipe break late yesterday afternoon so no water. It broke at a braze joint where it was repaired after a break few years ago. So I don't think it was a freeze but a contraction and expansion that caused the break.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 17, 2021 07:57 AM (ATlIN)

68 Chyna Joe gave the eulogy at Byrd's funeral, if IIRC. Did he have to learn and include some ceremonial KKK phrases?
Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 17, 2021 07:50 AM (nkc1K)

Maybe he did but Slick spoke, like he always fucking does, some phrases of electoral necessity drove Sheets to the klan and made him become a grand cyclops or some such nuttery. To Clenis, getting elected excuses everything including, obviously, rape.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 07:57 AM (y7DUB)

69 Morning peeps. Coldest night here I've experienced in several years. For about a while it was zero. Not as bad as elsewhere but geeze. The sunrise was weird; a very narrow band of colors with the snow on the ground and dark clouds above. Interesting....

Politically, I think the Democrats are shifting into the backstabbing phase of their overthrow of the government and country. Politicians are a dirty bunch of cock suckers and as we've seen with the Turtle they simply don't care about anything other than the grift and keeping their place in line at the money trough.

Something or someone is making cogs turn in NY and CA. Backstabbing?

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 17, 2021 07:58 AM (3H9h1)

70 I know this is hurtful for those who are in the military, or have loved ones there - but the US Armed Forces have gone full on woke. Don't get me wrong, the people in the military aren't the problem, but they will be part of the Solution.

I graduated from the United States Military Academy. An institution that I am now informed is racist producing white supremacists for the racist Army. The SecDef a member of the class of 75 is promoting this calumny.

I want nothing to do with it. I am sorely tempted to send my ring back.
Posted by: blaster at February 17, 2021 07:55 AM (ZfRYq)

Well keep your ring please. And yes now that sundown and his pawn ( well not his pawn but the pawn of those running sundown) austin, yes they are on the way to being full woke. But some of us here will fight back within the confines of the UCMJ. I have already been in contact with a famous, former JAG, lawyer who I met on a ADMIN SEP Board to ask him "what if" questions. We are engaged

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2021 07:58 AM (dMIF+)

71 I won't speak ill of a veteran, never having served myself.

But I don't mind if other veterans do.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 17, 2021 07:56 AM (0RFCO)

I love my fellow veterans and all, but we are all human. Vets are not above criticism. (Just look at John McCain. I appreciate his service and he went through hell at the Hanoi Hilton, but he was a disaster as a politician.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 07:58 AM (49Dnm)

72 This "whiteness" shit should backfire on the left, I am hoping it will. My alternative is to declare my minority status.

Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 07:58 AM (ONvIw)

73 Boker Fuckin Tov

I am so sick of hearing from the left about white extremism in the Military. I am in the fucking Military every fuckin day, and the Military is the least prejudice organization I have ever been associate with. It's a slur on the Military and all who serve. Fuck you sundown and fuck you austin
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2021 07:51 AM (dMIF+)

Yup. It had been known for decades that if you wanted a fair shake and to be judged on competence, you joined up. I think my sons' medical issues (both celiac, I think) would have prevented service anyway, but talking my children out of serving as a military kid and wife is the weirdest feeling ever.

Posted by: Catherine at February 17, 2021 07:59 AM (CNUbv)

74 They didn't bother with "mail in" voting, or maybe more corrdctly at least they didn't trust the PO. Not with something that important as seal the steal.

They installed "drop boxes" sprinkling them far and wide and stuffed them with fraudulent ballots. Everybody knows this. Bypass the unreliable post office. It's for the children.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 17, 2021 08:00 AM (/krQw)

75
Regarding the wind turbines in Texas, my favorite photo so far is of an oil-powered helicopter spraying oil-based de-icer on one. The libs on Twitter are really cranky about people passing that one around.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2021 07:46 AM

The FaceBoot crew had to put a disclaimer on that photo so you know it fvcking hit home. Their 'truth' is that it's not a petroleum based spray being dropped on the turbine. By that math, if 1% is slightly wrong, then the whole premise is wrong.

FaceBoot would make Orwell beam with pride.

Posted by: Bill from Attainder at February 17, 2021 08:00 AM (N/gDA)

76 Be prepared: when, not if, the United States government suffers a humiliating military defeat and/or economic collapse, it will become an even more vicious, oppressive fascist police state. That moment will present both a danger and and an opportunity for dissolution.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 17, 2021 08:00 AM (puu6v)

77 They had what - 20% - of their power coming from renewables? Not just wind but solar too -and they are failing at epic proportions."

Solar is an even more laughable boondoggle than Wind, as the Germans are finding out. (see story above) The instant the first snowfall hits, all solar goes offline because the photocells become blocked. This is so freaking obvious that claiming solar can work anywhere subject to snow should class as criminal fraud.

and yet the idiot left is out there preaching it every day, while their masters rake in oodles and boodles of cash for pushing that nonsense.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 08:00 AM (bxPTJ)

78 If I had loads of money I'd look into it as a Plan B. Not something I'd want my factories and utilities reliant on, though.
Posted by: CppThis at February 17, 2021 07:55 AM (zcf1k)

Excellent idea. I wonder if you can get a small bank of them, say on a detached garage or on a stand alone pole, to provide enough power for short term use, like for a day or three. Self installed too.

Thanks CppThis!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2021 08:01 AM (R/m4+)

79 Janice used to bug me but she has largest nutsack on FOX

maybe because it's the only nutsack on Fox

Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2021 08:01 AM (6iURM)

80 Oh and just to further depress you it has 180K likes.
Posted by: Tami at February 17, 2021 07:56 AM (cF8AT)

I wouldn't feel too bad. A O-Smollett has her fan club. When she's not talking about green energy she's giving make up tips. Doubtless there were a few zingers in there against and we all know there are more than 150,000 people who disagree with her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2021 08:01 AM (VP4Cd)

81 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 08:02 AM (G0G8s)

82 @AOC

The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don't* pursue a Green New Deal.

Oh and just to further depress you it has 180K likes.
Posted by: Tami at February 17, 2021 07:56 AM (cF8AT)

How can you be so absolutely fucking wrong wrong wrong?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 08:02 AM (yrol0)

83 @AOC
The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don't* pursue a Green New Deal.

Oh and just to further depress you it has 180K likes.

--

Jesus...

Her green energy wind turbines quit working, and we need more green energy wind turbines? G*d, this woman is a masterclass imbecile.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 08:02 AM (O+I8R)

84 They just expect me to accept it and then come back and vote for them again.

Nope.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 17, 2021 07:45 AM (0RFCO)

===

Making elections a pointless charade is a feature, not a bug of the Junta.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2021 08:02 AM (EZebt)

85 How much wind/solar does Greenland use?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2021 08:03 AM (3D/fK)

86 Trump/DeSantis 2024!

Posted by: The people across the aisle want us silenced at best,dead at worst at February 17, 2021 08:03 AM (xXx5y)

87 Its the fault of people who continually elect leftwing asshole after asshole who raise taxes, ...And then when these people flee the misery they brought upon themselves, they take their voting habits with them and elect the same leftist stooges to wreak havoc on the place they sought refuge.

This. Its the voters. We all know them. Vote how they are told by media, or their party, then spend the next 2 years bitching about the politicians. Pathetic. Grow up and own the consequences of your lazy passivity.

Posted by: Some dope in pa at February 17, 2021 08:03 AM (/9/1Z)

88 86 Trump/DeSantis 2024!
Posted by: The people across the aisle want us silenced at best,dead at worst at February 17, 2021 08:03 AM (xXx5y)

That was my brainwave yesterday. 4 years is an eternity but he is looking real good.

*feels tap on shoulder from Dominion...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:04 AM (s2VJv)

89 21 The GOP still hasn't done anything to convince me they have a plan for dealing with the election fraud.

They just expect me to accept it and then come back and vote for them again.

Nope.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 17, 2021 07:45 AM (0RFCO)

They are delighted with election fraud. Sadly the DOJ and courts were in on the scam, especially the DOJ.

Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 08:04 AM (ONvIw)

90 I have a friend who's an electrician and has been looking into those. he says that now, for PERSONAL home use, and staying connected to the grid, they aren't a bad investment, depending on local weather averages."

I get what he's saying, because of massive subsidies, they may make financial sense on an individual basis, in certain situations. From on overall societal sense, they are suicidal idiocy. To put it more simply, they only make sense when Government is willing to pay you big piles of cash to use them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 08:04 AM (bxPTJ)

91 >>Regarding the wind turbines in Texas, my favorite photo so far is of an oil-powered helicopter spraying oil-based de-icer on one. The libs on Twitter are really cranky about people passing that one around.

Heh. Excellent.
Keep this one tucked away for future use: https://tinyurl.com/1dlcv31l

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2021 08:05 AM (bDqIh)

92 87 Its the fault of people who continually elect leftwing asshole after asshole who raise taxes, ...And then when these people flee the misery they brought upon themselves, they take their voting habits with them and elect the same leftist stooges to wreak havoc on the place they sought refuge.

This. Its the voters. We all know them. Vote how they are told by media, or their party, then spend the next 2 years bitching about the politicians. Pathetic. Grow up and own the consequences of your lazy passivity.
Posted by: Some dope in pa at February 17, 2021 08:03 AM (/9/1Z)

They'll just support term limits instead of being THE term limits.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 08:05 AM (49Dnm)

93 J.J., you know I think you're a mensch and love you like a brother, but this line -

G-d help them if we ever do give them something to wet their diapers about.

- is why I weep for the future. It should never be IF, it should be WHEN.

Until people internalize that and act on that, then this is all the future holds:

https://tinyurl.com/yuuol3kk

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 08:05 AM (2JVJo)

94 The FaceBoot crew had to put a disclaimer on that photo so you know it fvcking hit home. Their 'truth' is that it's not a petroleum based spray being dropped on the turbine. By that math, if 1% is slightly wrong, then the whole premise is wrong.]/b]

FaceBoot would make Orwell beam with pride.
Posted by: Bill from Attainder at February 17, 2021 08:00 AM (N/gDA)

My favorite one was the other day, they said "mostly false" on something related to rising gas prices because of the keystone shutdown. it was mostly faulse bacause, and i quote " shutting the pipeline down PROBABLY wouldn't increase gas prices...

i shit you not...

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 17, 2021 08:05 AM (8D42x)

95 damnit

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 17, 2021 08:06 AM (8D42x)

96 What idiot buys those things? I remember when Archie Bunker got bamboozled into buying aluminum siding for his house. Hilarity ensued.

I had solar at my last house. It meant that during hot sunny summer days I could run the central A/C as cold as I wanted for free.

If you know what you're getting into, solar can be good. I just don't want the damn grid relying on it.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2021 08:06 AM (6XLoz)

97 Sponge! *the forms must be followed*

...Just as it is in California, where Gavin Newsom is likely to face a recall election.

Sadly, Ric Grenell has denied being interested in the job. Not that he had a chance of winning. Not in a "vote harvesting is totes legal" state.

Oh well.

Posted by: GnuBreed, oh well at February 17, 2021 08:06 AM (F0YaR)

98 I am so sick of hearing from the left about white extremism in the Military. I am in the fucking Military every fuckin day, and the Military is the least prejudice organization I have ever been associate with. It's a slur on the Military and all who serve.

--

THIS. It's maddening, it's infuriating, it's sickening, it's foul, it's so harmful, divisive and corrosive. Leftists simply make up whatever "facts" they want to suit their goals. And they do it for everything. It's simply breathtaking.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 08:06 AM (O+I8R)

99 1. Texas converted about 25% to wind and solar
2. Elec Customers Tracked: 12,496,591, State Outages: 2,965,601
3. 2965601 / 12496591=0.237312799947 or 24% Outages
4. Wind and Solar are NOT required to balance or guarantee power to the network. Thermal picks up the slack.
5. The system is design to fuck over about 25% of the customers in bad weather conditions.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 08:07 AM (yrol0)

100 Haha @ preznit aqualung

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 17, 2021 08:07 AM (/6GbT)

101 oh yeah

Fuck you AOC

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 08:07 AM (yrol0)

102 - is why I weep for the future. It should never be IF, it should be WHEN.

Until people internalize that and act on that, then this is all the future holds:

https://tinyurl.com/yuuol3kk
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 08:05 AM (2JVJo

All factions of the left are malignant. When the Qualcomm heiress called for truth commissions, she meant it. And she's as big a bigot as anyone. To give her a pass is stupid.

Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 08:08 AM (ONvIw)

103 76
There is an opportunity for separation right around the corner, debate coming on statehood for DC and or PR. The perfect time for a show of hands. Whos in and whos out.

Posted by: Some dope in pa at February 17, 2021 08:08 AM (/9/1Z)

104 Is AOC demanding "truth commissions", too?

Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 08:09 AM (ONvIw)

105 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 08:05 AM (2JVJo)

I think it is in our nature that things have to be at a super critical mass before anything happens resembling a real pushback.

Society will have to be on the actual verge of collapse. Oh well, it is what it is.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:09 AM (s2VJv)

106 Greetings fappers and fappees. What fresh hell awaits us this day?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 17, 2021 08:09 AM (HaL55)

107 >>Regarding the wind turbines in Texas, my favorite photo so far is of an oil-powered helicopter spraying oil-based de-icer on one. The libs on Twitter are really cranky about people passing that one around.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2021 07:46 AM

Just for clarification, (and not in defense of the horrid, bird-killing wind turbines), the photo that everyone keeps seeing about spraying the blades is from 2016. So, fake news.

Posted by: squeakywheel at February 17, 2021 08:09 AM (iDGpQ)

108 Gas jumped .30 to 2.65

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 17, 2021 08:09 AM (/6GbT)

109 I get what he's saying, because of massive subsidies, they may make financial sense on an individual basis, in certain situations. From on overall societal sense, they are suicidal idiocy. To put it more simply, they only make sense when Government is willing to pay you big piles of cash to use them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 08:04 AM (bxPTJ)

oh yeah, and even he says the same thing, it's great for personal, but no way in hell would it work for anything like trying to keep a small town going. it's not sufficient for scalability.

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 17, 2021 08:09 AM (8D42x)

110 *feels tap on shoulder from Dominion...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:04 AM (s2VJv)

You know every time you link anything from American Thinker, you're supporting a place who caved to Dominion when they were threatened by some scam lawsuit. If MP4 wants an additional example of why "our side" won't prevail, look right there.

Principles, how do they work?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 08:10 AM (y7DUB)

111 Military... I used to work for the Army as a civilian. I've never served. The Command I was in serviced the Active Army, the Reserves and the National Guard in all sorts of HR and recruiting/retention programs from the IT side of things. There was a significant emphasis on sexual harassment and equal opportunity that morphed into "wokeness" by the time I retired last year.

That change in direction has not been well received by the Soldiers. Your officers who are pushing it have been given orders from further up the chain of command. It's a top - down program started decades ago.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 17, 2021 08:10 AM (3H9h1)

112 78 Excellent idea. I wonder if you can get a small bank of them, say on a detached garage or on a stand alone pole, to provide enough power for short term use, like for a day or three. Self installed too.

Thanks CppThis!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2021 08:01 AM (R/m4+)

Should work. Typically what you do is install the panels on the sunny part of the roof, as well as a high capacity battery and some hardware to tie into the main grid. A lot of experts say that Tesla's lasting contribution to technology will actually be their batteries.

It's really not a bad residential solution if you live in a sunny area, but the upfront cost is very high. The batteries alone are like $25k even before getting to the panels. But generators aren't cheap either, and you'll be getting significant savings on your electric bill every month.

Posted by: CppThis at February 17, 2021 08:10 AM (zcf1k)

113 >>Oh and just to further depress you it has 180K likes.

It helps that she has her own little teen eco-cult:

https://tinyurl.com/p3naxl5n

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2021 08:11 AM (bDqIh)

114 I think it is in our nature that things have to be at a super critical mass before anything happens resembling a real pushback.

Society will have to be on the actual verge of collapse. Oh well, it is what it is.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:09 AM (s2VJv)

The left has played this very cagily by putting "victims" up front as spokespeople for the reich

Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 08:11 AM (ONvIw)

115 What is REALLY frustrating is that these oppressive tactics are working.

I have this idea that people should put red carnations in the fence around the Capitol. Hundreds. Thousands.

But I can see how it works. I will get doxxed and fired. Probably arrested. And it will be a Federal felony and that would make me completely unemployable. And the Left will cheer it on because hey punching Nazis is okay.

Posted by: blaster at February 17, 2021 08:11 AM (ZfRYq)

116 Due to recent circumstances, we are going to need you to shove your green ideas, namely solar and wind energy, up your asses.
Sincerely,
Texas.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 08:11 AM (G0G8s)

117 The recipe for creating citizen battle-bots starts with the Bill Of Rights eviscerated by "Executive Order".

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 17, 2021 08:11 AM (nkc1K)

118 whew, dodged a bullet @94. not to day barrel, not today...

at least not yet...

:unsure:

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 17, 2021 08:12 AM (8D42x)

119 And the Left will cheer it on because hey punching Nazis is okay.
Posted by: blaster at February 17, 2021 08:11 AM (ZfRYq)

Blame MArk Bray, Joe Alcoff, and the rest of the antifa trash for that.

Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 08:12 AM (ONvIw)

120 Karl Denninger over at Market-Ticker dot org has a pretty good breakdown.

Part of the issue with NG deliveries - crucial - are everybody went "green" and replaced the pumps that actually move natural gas through the pipelines with pumps powered by electricity.

They formerly worked by ... natural gas ... a very elegant solution to An engineering problem. But the "Clean Air" act decides such things for us.

No electricity - the NG can't move through the pipelines. There is no "shortage" of NG. Just an excess of dumbshit liberal twatwaffles.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 17, 2021 08:12 AM (/krQw)

121 Biden said, "I got involved in politics, to begin with because of civil rights and opposition to white supremacist, the Ku Klux Klan
_______________

LOL, what bullshit.

Biden got involved in politics because he was too damn stupid to be able to make a living as a lawyer.

It's not like the Klan was running rampant in Delaware in the 1970's.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 17, 2021 08:12 AM (k4dH2)

122 Anyone else think that the new Parler icon looks like an alien? Creeps me out, but I'm cynical enough to think that the new, improved Parler won't last too long anyway.

Posted by: squeakywheel at February 17, 2021 08:13 AM (iDGpQ)

123 Also, if you just want really basic (i.e. not whole-house) emergency solar, the outdoorsy crowd has some relatively inexpensive portable options that output a couple hundred watts or so.

I've been evaluating a woodgas generator for emergency use, but I live in place that has a lot more trees than sunlight. Unfortunately there aren't many off the shelf woodgas generators and I'm just not set up with the necessary stuff to properly build my own.

Posted by: CppThis at February 17, 2021 08:13 AM (zcf1k)

124 110 Principles, how do they work?
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 08:10 AM (y7DUB)

It's like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Their authors and stories are almost always excellent so I am not going to deny linking them because they were forced to do this. How much money does Thomas Lifson have compared to the Junta that is backing Dominion?

If you think I'm unprincipled, well, what can I tell you.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:13 AM (s2VJv)

125 It's not like the Klan was running rampant in Delaware in the 1970's.

The Klan was afraid of Corn Pop.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2021 08:13 AM (6XLoz)

126 Biden said, "I got involved in politics, to begin with because of civil rights and opposition to white supremacist, the Ku Klux Klan

--

He's a Republican?

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 08:13 AM (O+I8R)

127 I have a friend who's an electrician and has been looking into those. he says that now, for PERSONAL home use, and staying connected to the grid, they aren't a bad investment, depending on local weather averages."

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 08:04 AM

Google has a free tool that looks at your location, determines the sq feet of roof space available, factors in your local climate, then determines the available hours of usable sunlight per year.

My number was 1,000. So for about three hours per day I can use as much power as I want! Better then Venezuela, I guess.

Now Generac has a system of panels, plus battery storage that is worth looking at... but I'm not so sure I want that many lithium batteries in my garage. Maybe if I had a heat activated spray head installed over them, maybe.

Posted by: Bill from Attainder at February 17, 2021 08:14 AM (N/gDA)

128 I do not understand the opposition to nuclear power.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at February 17, 2021 08:14 AM (KMA98)

129 Biden had 40+ years to do something for blacks. He did nothing for them.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 08:14 AM (O+I8R)

130 Biden said, "I got involved in politics, to begin with because of civil rights and opposition to white supremacist, the Ku Klux Klan

****

I'm not surprised by it any more, but I admit that I'm still a little shocked that Democrats have such a tendency to be able to openly lie like this.

Setting aside that Robert Byrd was his mentor, Biden was .iterally one of, if not THE last national-level Democrat to call for busing and say he didn't want his kids to grow up in the "racial jungle."

Heck, the VP of the US pointed it out.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 08:15 AM (x3HuE)

131 129 Biden had 40+ years to do something for blacks. He did nothing for them.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 08:14 AM (O+I8R)

Look what his 40 years did TO them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:15 AM (s2VJv)

132 If you know what you're getting into, solar can be good. I just don't want the damn grid relying on it.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2021 08:06 AM (6XLoz)

That sir is the problem. Solar and wind do not have any stake in the game to stabilize the grid!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 08:15 AM (yrol0)

133 @AP 1m

Another winter storm front is blowing through the nation's midsection, where power grids haven't adjusted for the wild weather swings that come with climate change. Millions remain without power, mostly in Texas, and at least 20 have died.

Posted by: Tami at February 17, 2021 08:16 AM (cF8AT)

134 Also:

"It has always been as Lincoln said we have to you appear to a battle angels these guys are not and women they are in fact demented"

I can see why Karmella is the one talking to other nations' heads of state.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 08:16 AM (x3HuE)

135 Nuclear power is clean, cheap, safe, and it works.

What additional reasons for opposition do you need?!

/s

Posted by: squeakywheel at February 17, 2021 08:16 AM (iDGpQ)

136 "I do not understand the opposition to nuclear power."

Well, for one, it would ensure our energy independence.

Some folk consider that to be sub-optimal.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2021 08:16 AM (3D/fK)

137 It's really not a bad residential solution if you live in a sunny area, but the upfront cost is very high. The batteries alone are like $25k even before getting to the panels. But generators aren't cheap either, and you'll be getting significant savings on your electric bill every month.
Posted by: CppThis at February 17, 2021 08:10 AM (zcf1k)

Good information, thanks again!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2021 08:16 AM (R/m4+)

138 Part of the issue with NG deliveries - crucial - are everybody went "green" and replaced the pumps that actually move natural gas through the pipelines with pumps powered by electricity.

They formerly worked by ... natural gas ... a very elegant solution to An engineering problem. But the "Clean Air" act decides such things for us.

No electricity - the NG can't move through the pipelines. There is no "shortage" of NG. Just an excess of dumbshit liberal twatwaffles.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 17, 2021 08:12 AM (/krQw)

well, they've got wind turbines and solar panels to power the pumps when bad weather hits, so what's the issue...

that is actually a pretty epic level of stupid.

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 17, 2021 08:16 AM (8D42x)

139 If you think I'm unprincipled, well, what can I tell you.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:13 AM (s2VJv)

That sentence wasn't aimed at you and I'm surprised you thought it was. Either American Thinker is committed to free speech or they're not.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 08:17 AM (y7DUB)

140 121 It's not like the Klan was running rampant in Delaware in the 1970's.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 17, 2021 08:12 AM (k4dH2)

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Well, maybe in the elite Democratic circles of Delaware.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 08:17 AM (LvTSG)

141 Good morning y'all!

Posted by: tbodie at February 17, 2021 08:17 AM (ovir2)

142 129 Biden had 40+ years to do something for blacks. He did nothing for them.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 08:14 AM (O+I8R)

=========

He did have that crime bill...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 08:18 AM (LvTSG)

143 >>@AOC
The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don't* pursue a Green New Deal.
- - -
Leftism 101:
Step 1: Implement Lefty policies that break an institution or organization or system

Step 2: Blame the people and philosophies that created the original functional institution, organization or system.

Step 3: Demand more money to fix it. When that fails, go to Step 1.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2021 08:18 AM (bDqIh)

144 Yahoo! news has an article helpfully explaining that, according to climate experts, despite global warming we can still expect extreme snow storms like we are seeing now for at least a few more decades. The models even predict this!

Just in case if any LIV's were doubting the narrative you can rest assured the experts have it covered and go back to watching sportstball when the electricity comes back on. .

Posted by: Ripley at February 17, 2021 08:18 AM (MxEKc)

145 "It has always been as Lincoln said we have to you appear to a battle angels these guys are not and women they are in fact demented"

how the fuck does this guy find his socks in the morning?

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 17, 2021 08:18 AM (FZYNt)

146 128 I do not understand the opposition to nuclear power.
Posted by: Denny Crane! at February 17, 2021 08:14 AM (KMA9

People don't want that radioactive electricity in their house.

Posted by: blaster at February 17, 2021 08:19 AM (ZfRYq)

147 136 "I do not understand the opposition to nuclear power."
Well, for one, it would ensure our energy independence.
Some folk consider that to be sub-optimal.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2021 08:16 AM (3D/fK)
==========

"It could lead to a disaster!"

"What about green energy? Could it lead to a disaster?"

"No. Why would you think that?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 08:19 AM (LvTSG)

148 Senator Letitia James.

Posted by: Thirdtwin at February 17, 2021 08:19 AM (MMJ/U)

149 @AP 1m

Another winter storm front is blowing through the nation's midsection, where power grids haven't adjusted for the wild weather swings that come with climate change. Millions remain without power, mostly in Texas, and at least 20 have died.

--

But, of course! Climate change! I wondered how long it would take for them to harness that canard onto the storm.

I can picture the lemmings now. Eyes glazed over with cartoon spirals, arms outstretched like zombies, repeating over and over, "wild weather swings equals global warming, green energy NOW!"

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 08:19 AM (O+I8R)

150 139 If you think I'm unprincipled, well, what can I tell you.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:13 AM (s2VJv)

That sentence wasn't aimed at you and I'm surprised you thought it was. Either American Thinker is committed to free speech or they're not.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 08:17 AM (y7DUB)

Okay, no prob. But to your criticism of AT, in practical terms, what do you think they should do, taking into account it's effectively David vs Goliath in the extreme.

If they tell Dominion to go to hell, they'll get crushed and put out of business.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:20 AM (s2VJv)

151 Goal Zero (goalzero.com) is or at least used to be one of the major players in low-end portable solar. They sell mostly to campers, preppers and RVs so they're more of a get-shit-done organization than many of the green grifters. There again, while not as expensive as a Tesla Powerwall be prepared for some sticker shock when you look at their batteries. And you really, really want a battery if you're gonna do anything solar.

Posted by: CppThis at February 17, 2021 08:20 AM (zcf1k)

152 Last night @JoyAnnReid called Mount Rushmore the stone idol to presidential colonizers. On Presidents Day of all days!

Will there be watching parties when the American Taliban Progressives blow up the mountain?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (yrol0)

153 Another winter storm front is blowing through the nation's midsection, where power grids haven't adjusted for the wild weather swings that come with climate change. Millions remain without power, mostly in Texas, and at least 20 have died.
Posted by: Tami at February 17, 2021 08:16 AM (cF8AT)

We can't call it global warming. With the term "climate change", we can blame capitalism and America NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (49Dnm)

154 "I do not understand the opposition to nuclear power."

Some our well informed sciency people saw The China Syndrome.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (y7DUB)

155 Radioactive electricity will contaminate our Tesla batteries.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (3D/fK)

156 148 Senator Letitia James.
Posted by: Thirdtwin at February 17, 2021 08:19 AM (MMJ/U)

At this fucking point, I'm numb to the combination of whacked out Marxists with titles like President and Senator, etc.

We are so past the point of no return that it makes no difference.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (s2VJv)

157 Sundown is against the Klan? Gee 1/2 of the Klan were federal agents, so SUndown hates Federal Agents?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (dMIF+)

158 Just for clarification, (and not in defense of the horrid, bird-killing wind turbines), the photo that everyone keeps seeing about spraying the blades is from 2016. So, fake news.
Posted by: squeakywheel

Have pictures, don't care when they were taken, of a large (hazmat size) oil spill at the base where a control unit blew a seal. Have another picture where they are strip mining the land to bury the blades at end of service life because they aren't recyclable.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (G0G8s)

159 It's all lies, all the time.™

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (2BZBZ)

160 154 "I do not understand the opposition to nuclear power."

Some our well informed sciency people saw The China Syndrome.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (y7DUB)

=========

They must have slept through half of it. I mean, it's kind of boring for a thriller.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (LvTSG)

161 Here in Bluegrass where I live I think a small wind turbine would actually be useful. I get sustained winds about 80 percent of the time, day and night. Typically in the 5 - 15 MPH range, but that could go on for days at a time.

I have a general understanding of the workings but I need to do some "real" research on this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (3H9h1)

162 The Sierra Club was a huge propnent of Nuclear energy at one time. They reasoned that it was the only environmentally friendly way, at the time they were fighting against hydroelectric and reclamation dams being built all over the West. There was talk of damming the Colorado at Grand Canyon, and Glen Canyon dam was probably the impetus.

Interestingly enough, the Sierra Club was also adamantly against illegal migration and illegal aliens, reasoning that more people means more pressure on limited resources. More roads, more timber, water, electricity demand.

This policy went away quietly, when large donors and contributors complained.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (/krQw)

163 The Northeast, especially New England, is starving for more natural gas. Problem is NY State. There have been proposals to build a pipeline up into New England, but it has to go through New York State. And Cuomo, in cahoots with the Dems and Greenies BIRM, deny it.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (N39Ws)

164 I see the "experts" are saying this deep freeze is a direct result of global warming and the intense cold will continue and become more frequent as it gets warmer.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 17, 2021 08:22 AM (JUOKG)

165 151 Goal Zero (goalzero.com) is or at least used to be one of the major players in low-end portable solar. They sell mostly to campers, preppers and RVs so they're more of a get-shit-done organization than many of the green grifters. There again, while not as expensive as a Tesla Powerwall be prepared for some sticker shock when you look at their batteries. And you really, really want a battery if you're gonna do anything solar.
Posted by: CppThis at February 17, 2021 08:20 AM (zcf1k)

Yeah. I looked at them before and saw some of the prices and reviews and was of the mind "never mind".

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 08:22 AM (49Dnm)

166 162 The Sierra Club was a huge propnent of Nuclear energy at one time. They reasoned that it was the only environmentally friendly way, at the time they were fighting against hydroelectric and reclamation dams being built all over the West. There was talk of damming the Colorado at Grand Canyon, and Glen Canyon dam was probably the impetus.

Interestingly enough, the Sierra Club was also adamantly against illegal migration and illegal aliens, reasoning that more people means more pressure on limited resources. More roads, more timber, water, electricity demand.

This policy went away quietly, when large donors and contributors complained.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (/krQw)

=========

"large donors and contributors" = Russia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 08:22 AM (LvTSG)

167 Once TX and other affected areas of the country thaw out from the winter blast it would be smart if conservatives would organize to protest the GND. What better time than now when it's clear that "unreliable" means just that...unreliable.

Posted by: Ziba at February 17, 2021 08:22 AM (S1hrL)

168 144 Yahoo! news has an article helpfully explaining that, according to climate experts, despite global warming we can still expect extreme snow storms like we are seeing now for at least a few more decades. The models even predict this!

Global Warming obviously means Global Cooling because it's tricky like that! It's Magical!

If there's a drought, That's Global Warming!
If there's a flood, That's Global Warming!
If it gets warmer, That's Global Warming!
but if it gets colder, That's Global Warming too!!!

If your hair falls out and you get a rash, that is Absolutely Global Warming! See your environmental witch doktor immediately!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 08:22 AM (bxPTJ)

169 Oh and just to further depress you it has 180K likes.

That clueless bint could type "My cat's breath smells like cat food" and Twitter would ensure it "got" 180K likes.

Posted by: spindrift at February 17, 2021 08:22 AM (WlFLk)

170 125 It's not like the Klan was running rampant in Delaware in the 1970's.

the last FBI estimate of nationwide membership in the KKK was 2K

fucking 2K

probably more people than that believe Moochie is a woman

Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2021 08:22 AM (6iURM)

171 When I build my compound it will have wind and solar. Because it will be off-grid. But it will also have gas powered generators. Everything except my own reactor.

Posted by: blaster at February 17, 2021 08:22 AM (ZfRYq)

172 152 Last night @JoyAnnReid called Mount Rushmore the stone idol to presidential colonizers. On Presidents Day of all days!

Will there be watching parties when the American Taliban Progressives blow up the mountain?
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (yrol0)

"Dr. Zaius with the dynamite in the seaside cave."

- - Clue 2021

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:22 AM (s2VJv)

173 Leftism 101:
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
- Groucho Marx, the only Marxist worth listening to.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 17, 2021 08:22 AM (HaL55)

174 169 Oh and just to further depress you it has 180K likes.

That clueless bint could type "My cat's breath smells like cat food" and Twitter would ensure it "got" 180K likes.
Posted by: spindrift at February 17, 2021 08:22 AM (WlFLk)

========

I'm not saying it's bots, but it's bots.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 08:23 AM (LvTSG)

175 Power is back on at my house here in Houston. Now waiting for the water to return and hoping for no burst pipes. I doubt the proper steps will be taken to avoid a repeat in the future. I truly hate being this cynical.

Posted by: Alan Bourdillion Traherne at February 17, 2021 08:23 AM (bW3p6)

176 126 Biden said, "I got involved in politics, to begin with because of civil rights and opposition to white supremacist, the Ku Klux Klan

He's a Republican?
_____________________

He's a chronic liar.

Claiming he got into politics because of civil rights or the Klan is ridiculous. As somebody pointed out, even Kamaltoe called him out as a racist who had supported busing and said he didn't want his kids in a racial jungle.

But lying is just what Biden does. It's like how he lies about how he and his second wife Jill met. Jill was married at the time, and she and her first husband volunteered to work on Biden's first senate campaign. Jill worked out of Biden's home (where Biden lived with his first wife Neilia), and that's likely when Jill and Biden first began screwing each other. But then Biden's wife died -- either as a suicide or in an accident -- and Biden decided that he'd better hide his relationship with Jill, so they made up a story that they met for the first time a few years after Neilia's death.

Biden lies about everything.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 17, 2021 08:23 AM (k4dH2)

177 Please do it!!

Students and alumni of Harvard University are signing a letter, titled, Revoke Their Degrees, which asks Harvards leadership to take action against Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, and former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany by banning them from campus and stripping them of their degrees.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 08:24 AM (yrol0)

178 I have a general understanding of the workings but I need to do some "real" research on this.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Get quotes on replacing the bearings before you spring for one. Usually a killer.

Posted by: MkY at February 17, 2021 08:24 AM (5hF5V)

179 169 Oh and just to further depress you it has 180K likes.

as a retired antique dealer, I can assure that broad appeal usually translates to ugly and wrong

Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2021 08:24 AM (6iURM)

180 huh
someone shared this headline from ... YAHOO NEWS?!

"Nancy Pelosi's Recent Stock Purchase Raises Important Ethics Issues For All Of Congress"

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 17, 2021 08:24 AM (nUhF0)

181 Wonder how many Tesla cars, Chevy Bolts, and other 100% electric vehicles are in TX right now. How many of them are unusable because they can't be charged due to power outages?
Meanwhile lifted 4x4s are out doing beer runs and doing donuts in the snow.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 17, 2021 08:25 AM (N39Ws)

182 Last night @JoyAnnReid called Mount Rushmore the stone idol to presidential colonizers. On Presidents Day of all days!

Will there be watching parties when the American Taliban Progressives blow up the mountain?

--

I can promise you the "discussion" will start rolling like a snowball into an avalanche about the offensive, white patriarchy up on that mount. Just as easy as it was to take down the Confederate flag, or destroy statues, they will be coming for Mt. Rushmore. And whoever blows it up will be lauded, and then fined with a 30-day probation.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 08:25 AM (O+I8R)

183 179 169 Oh and just to further depress you it has 180K likes.

as a retired antique dealer, I can assure that broad appeal usually translates to ugly and wrong
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2021 08:24 AM (6iURM)

ONLY 180k is good news.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:25 AM (s2VJv)

184 154 "I do not understand the opposition to nuclear power."

Some our well informed sciency people saw The China Syndrome.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (y7DUB)

How can you not understand that the word "Nuclear" is SCARY!!!! BOOOOOO!!!! SCARY!!!!!!

everything with the word "Nuclear" in it either blows up or makes mutants and you end up with people living underneath NYC and worshipping a bomb, you know.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 08:25 AM (bxPTJ)

185 "Get quotes on replacing the bearings before you spring for one. Usually a killer."

Get the good bearings, made in China.

Cheaper, too.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2021 08:25 AM (3D/fK)

186 I see the "experts" are saying this deep freeze is a direct result of global warming and the intense cold will continue and become more frequent as it gets warmer.

Remember, there was a movie not that long ago where global warming caused the entire continental US to be buried under 5 feet of snow and ice. They can't let go of the original 1970s prediction that capitalism would cause endless winter.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2021 08:25 AM (6XLoz)

187 180 huh

someone shared this headline from ... YAHOO NEWS?!

"Nancy Pelosi's Recent Stock Purchase Raises Important Ethics Issues For All Of Congress"

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 17, 2021 08:24 AM (nUhF0)

Unfortunately, this is true for just about every sitting Congress Critter and Senator. Insider trading rules do not apply to them.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 17, 2021 08:25 AM (N39Ws)

188 >>"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
- Groucho Marx, the only Marxist worth listening to.

Heh. Perfect

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2021 08:25 AM (bDqIh)

189 184
everything with the word "Nuclear" in it either blows up or makes mutants and you end up with people living underneath NYC and worshipping a bomb, you know.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 08:25 AM (bxPTJ)

=========

"We should be more like France."

"Okay, we'll adopt their abortion laws and embrace of nuclear power."

"Wait..."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 08:26 AM (LvTSG)

190 Another winter storm front is blowing through the nation's midsection, where power grids haven't adjusted for the wild weather swings that come with climate change. Millions remain without power, mostly in Texas, and at least 20 have died.

Yep, blowing through right now. It's a light snow with a temp of 7. High today is 21. I am waiting (for the 3rd day) for the blackout to hit us. I least I got my coffee made.

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 17, 2021 08:26 AM (nxdel)

191 But to your criticism of AT, in practical terms, what do you think they should do, taking into account it's effectively David vs Goliath in the extreme.

If they tell Dominion to go to hell, they'll get crushed and put out of business.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:20 AM (s2VJv)

You state that like it's a fact. Has Sidney Powell retracted anything? A good lawyer could argue that Dominion was acting as an agent of the feds and is prohibited from violating the First Amendment. Furthermore you're validating MP4's hypothesis that "our side" will never do a damn thing against tyranny.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 08:26 AM (y7DUB)

192 @AOC
The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don't* pursue a Green New Deal.

Dear Sugartits,
23% of our grid is wind. The part of the grid that didn't work? That was ALSO 23%. Yeah. Wind.
Kinda done pursuing "green energy".

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 08:26 AM (G0G8s)

193 I'd be all for adding nuclear capacity to Bay City here in TX. But one thing I'd really like to see: nuclear waste reprocessing. The French do this and the amount of nuclear waste they can't do anything with is surprisingly small, given that 70% or so of their electricity comes from nukes. And, unlike France, we have a place to store the waste products we can't do anything with (only Finland has such a place).

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 08:26 AM (49Dnm)

194 "It could lead to a disaster"
**

AP:
Another winter storm front is blowing through the nation's midsection, where power grids haven't adjusted for the wild weather swings that come with climate change. Millions remain without power, mostly in Texas, and at least 20 have died.

**********

This isn't a disaster, though. Only 20 people have died so far, and who knows how many billions of dollars of damages 25% being wind and solar has caused.

Not a disaster, though. A learning moment. A moment of clarity.

It's the fault of fossil fuels, obviously.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 08:26 AM (x3HuE)

195 Weather Channel idiot this morning said Texas was unable to get its gas and oil power to run and the solar and wind power is only running at fifty percent which is why they are having power blackouts. He was trying to tell me that oil and gas are unworkable.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 17, 2021 08:26 AM (UGuYD)

196 On the other hand, on a pleasant note, today is my birthday. I would rather be spending it in a warm climate with a lovely woman such as -

https://tinyurl.com/9tusf9t1

- but here I am, and working.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 08:27 AM (2JVJo)

197 Biden lies about everything.

Counterpoint: Biden can't remember what he had for breakfast, so nothing he says is connected to reality.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2021 08:27 AM (6XLoz)

198 @AOC
The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don't* pursue a Green New Deal.

*****

The college graduate who wiped tables down for a living until very recently is telling you Science.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 08:28 AM (x3HuE)

199
When I build my compound it will have wind and solar. Because it will be off-grid. But it will also have gas powered generators. Everything except my own reactor.

Posted by: blaster at February 17, 2021 08:22 AM

That's small-minded. I could get you some Uranium at a good price. Enough, arrayed properly, you could easily achieve critical mess.

Posted by: Hillary Clidon at February 17, 2021 08:28 AM (N/gDA)

200 Wonder how many Tesla cars, Chevy Bolts, and other 100% electric vehicles are in TX right now. How many of them are unusable because they can't be charged due to power outages?
Meanwhile lifted 4x4s are out doing beer runs and doing donuts in the snow.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

This storm should have killed "green energy" in Texas for a couple of generations.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 08:28 AM (G0G8s)

201 191 Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 08:26 AM (y7DUB)

I am assuming it. I have occasional contact with Mr. Lifson and I can assure you that he does not have the financial means to weather an extended legal battle with the likes of Dominion and no doubt its billionaire backers. And even if they did, the jury pools in California (where he is based) won't exactly be friendly to his side of the argument.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:28 AM (s2VJv)

202 You state that like it's a fact. Has Sidney Powell retracted anything? A good lawyer could argue that Dominion was acting as an agent of the feds and is prohibited from violating the First Amendment. Furthermore you're validating MP4's hypothesis that "our side" will never do a damn thing against tyranny.

It's easy to be brave when you aren't the one facing financial ruination. That's been the basis of corporate-on-citizen lawsuits for decades.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2021 08:28 AM (6XLoz)

203 199
That's small-minded. I could get you some Uranium at a good price. Enough, arrayed properly, you could easily achieve critical mess.
Posted by: Hillary Clidon at February 17, 2021 08:28 AM (N/gDA)

==========

Just rip it off some Libyan nationalists and give them some pinball machine parts instead.

They won't be able to tell the difference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 08:28 AM (LvTSG)

204 "And, unlike France, we have a place to store the waste products we can't do anything with"

We can store it in D.C.?

Finally, the place will serve a useful purpose.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2021 08:28 AM (3D/fK)

205 MPPP -Happy birthday! One more trip around the sun. Here's to a better trip this coming year than last.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 17, 2021 08:29 AM (N39Ws)

206 Interestingly enough, the Sierra Club was also adamantly against illegal migration and illegal aliens, reasoning that more people means more pressure on limited resources. More roads, more timber, water, electricity demand.
This policy went away quietly, when large donors and contributors complained.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 17, 2021 08:21 AM (/krQw)

I always wondered happened with that. The Earth Firsters! were a real bunch of whackadoodles too....blowing up shit, damaging equipment and other left wing do gooder bullshit.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2021 08:29 AM (R/m4+)

207 >>Students and alumni of Harvard University are signing a letter, titled, Revoke Their Degrees, which asks Harvards leadership to take action against Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, and former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany by banning them from campus and stripping them of their degrees.

They understand that one purchases an education, right? A Harvard degree isn't like a blue checkmark that can be granted and revoked based on an alum pleasing the system.

And also, that the degree does not physically retain the knowlege gained; stripping a degree won't make then de- or un-educated.

I'd say that anyone who signs that petition is too dumb to be attending Harvard. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2021 08:29 AM (bDqIh)

208 I wish I could claim it was planned, but it wasn't...

The power to my house is exceptionally reliable. Just by chance one of the top executives of our utility company lives at the end of the street.

Posted by: jwest at February 17, 2021 08:29 AM (/BlEx)

209 192 @AOC
The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don't* pursue a Green New Deal.

Dear Sugartits,
23% of our grid is wind. The part of the grid that didn't work? That was ALSO 23%. Yeah. Wind.
Kinda done pursuing "green energy".
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 08:26 AM (G0G8s)

See the accompanying article about Deutschland warning about the green energy flop.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:30 AM (s2VJv)

210 "Far too many Texans are without power and heat for their homes as our state faces freezing temperatures and severe winter weather. This is unacceptable."
Texas Governor, House Speaker Call for Emergency Probe of Failing Power Grid.

I can save him the time & money. Stop chasing green lefty BS power generation schemes and build some nuclear power plants.

Posted by: BifBewalski - Texas Needs To Fix This at February 17, 2021 08:30 AM (VcFUs)

211 Unfortunately, this is true for just about every sitting Congress Critter and Senator. Insider trading rules do not apply to them.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

I know. I'm just astonished at Yahoo News publishubg a piece calling out Nanzi Pelousy

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 17, 2021 08:30 AM (nUhF0)

212 Happy happy happy birthday, dear MP4.

I hope you have a lovely day.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at February 17, 2021 08:30 AM (TdMsT)

213 On the other hand, on a pleasant note, today is my birthday.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Happy birthday !!!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 08:30 AM (G0G8s)

214 Happy Burfday, MP4!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 17, 2021 08:30 AM (HaL55)

215 He was trying to tell me that oil and gas are unworkable.
____________

LOL, yeah everybody knows that oil and gas don't work in really cold weather.

Only wind and solar do!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 17, 2021 08:30 AM (k4dH2)

216 208 >>Students and alumni of Harvard University are signing a letter, titled, Revoke Their Degrees, which asks Harvards leadership to take action against Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, and former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany by banning them from campus and stripping them of their degrees.

They understand that one purchases an education, right? A Harvard degree isn't like a blue checkmark that can be granted and revoked based on an alum pleasing the system.

And also, that the degree does not physically retain the knowlege gained; stripping a degree won't make then de- or un-educated.

I'd say that anyone who signs that petition is too dumb to be attending Harvard. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2021 08:29 AM (bDqIh)

SWEEP AWAY ALL MONSTERS AND DEMONS!!!

Posted by: Communist Party of China, June 1966 at February 17, 2021 08:30 AM (49Dnm)

217 Janice Dean still tweeting about Cuomo. Good for her!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2021 08:30 AM (VP4Cd)

218 Here's critical mass: fake impeachment #2, winter in TX, 25,000 illegals over the border, gas price continues to rise; electric rates spiking; farmers dumping milk while stores run out, interstate travel banned, schools remaining closed, small businesses locked down, people still masked up, soldiers back in Syria, Harris conducting foreign policy, stimulus package farce, Pelosi and Schumer and McConnell, Andrew Cuomo, etc. etc.
What more do we need?

Posted by: Ziba at February 17, 2021 08:30 AM (S1hrL)

219 169 Oh and just to further depress you it has 180K likes.

someone chewing on a plastic green clog would get a million

Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2021 08:31 AM (6iURM)

220 is it MP4's birthday?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MP4!!!!

*pops champagne*

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 17, 2021 08:31 AM (nUhF0)

221 205 JJ seems to be constantly reminded that it is the blue states that generally psy more to DC than the red states that ste sort of on federal welfare
Posted by: Proud Moderate at February 17, 2021 08:29 AM (lMTkX)

Keyboards. How do they work?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:31 AM (s2VJv)

222 Happy birthday MP4.

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 17, 2021 08:31 AM (nxdel)

223 oh yeah, and even he says the same thing, it's great for personal, but no way in hell would it work for anything like trying to keep a small town going. it's not sufficient for scalability.
=====

Like the nice little house near me with solar panels on the NORTHEAST face of the roof. Must be some really, really good subsidies.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 17, 2021 08:31 AM (MIKMs)

224 211 I can save him the time & money. Stop chasing green lefty BS power generation schemes and build some nuclear power plants.
Posted by: BifBewalski - Texas Needs To Fix This at February 17, 2021 08:30 AM (VcFUs)

==========

"Nah, bro."
-Texas Energy Commission, chasing industry prizes, not customer satisfaction

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 08:31 AM (LvTSG)

225 Holy crap, Fraud Biden is in rapid cognitive decline. What an incompetent bumbling idiot and embarrassment.

But at least we don't have Trump's Tweets- amirite?

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 08:31 AM (VpIIl)

226 Janice Dean is an example for the rest of us.

Posted by: Ziba at February 17, 2021 08:31 AM (S1hrL)

227 219 Here's critical mass: fake impeachment #2, winter in TX, 25,000
illegals over the border, gas price continues to rise; electric rates
spiking; farmers dumping milk while stores run out, interstate travel
banned, schools remaining closed, small businesses locked down, people
still masked up, soldiers back in Syria, Harris conducting foreign
policy, stimulus package farce, Pelosi and Schumer and McConnell, Andrew
Cuomo, etc. etc.

What more do we need?

Posted by: Ziba at February 17, 2021 08:30 AM (S1hrL)

"Hold my beer!"--SMOD

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 17, 2021 08:32 AM (N39Ws)

228 Happy birthday, MPPP!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2021 08:32 AM (bDqIh)

229 "I do not understand the opposition to nuclear power."

Some our well informed sciency people saw The China Syndrome.

********

That is 100% no-shit the reason the nation has wasted who knows how many trillions of dollars and energy on pointless all-items recycling.

Remember that photo of the garbage barge that couldn't find a place to park that one day?

That.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 08:32 AM (x3HuE)

230 MF

You need sustained winds much higher than you have stated. There is a lot of info on the web documenting wind resources.

The power that can be extracted goes as the cube of the speed so lower wind speeds like you have are not economical.

One of the problems with large scale wind power is that where the resources are located tend to be far from where the power is needed.

Posted by: pawn at February 17, 2021 08:32 AM (ogSaj)

231 Know who else favored citizens exposing, denouncing, and destroying real or perceived ideological enemies for even the slightest transgression? THIS GUY RIGHT HERE.

-- Hitler

[If the practice of someone's politics mimics Nazism, gently point out to them they're literally Hitler]

Posted by: Citizen sans nation at February 17, 2021 08:32 AM (yQokc)

232 The fake news are filled with joy and mirth today that still red Texas, which voted for Trump who denies global warming BTW, is suffering power outages and rolling blackouts. caused by global warming. (Which Trump denies, in case you missed it.)

Posted by: Ripley at February 17, 2021 08:32 AM (MxEKc)

233 204 "And, unlike France, we have a place to store the waste products we can't do anything with"

We can store it in D.C.?

Finally, the place will serve a useful purpose.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2021 08:28 AM (3D/fK)

My vote is the prison wallet for every politician in D.C.

Posted by: BifBewalski - Hazardous Materials Storage at February 17, 2021 08:32 AM (VcFUs)

234 211 "Far too many Texans are without power and heat for their homes as our state faces freezing temperatures and severe winter weather. This is unacceptable."
Texas Governor, House Speaker Call for Emergency Probe of Failing Power Grid.

I can save him the time & money. Stop chasing green lefty BS power generation schemes and build some nuclear power plants.
Posted by: BifBewalski - Texas Needs To Fix This at February 17, 2021 08:30 AM (VcFUs)

Mr. Phelan, of Beaumont, who, in spite of an 83-67 majority in the TX HR, sought Dem support to become Speaker, and thus is in hock to them, needlessly? Even to the point where they head coommittees?

Fuck that dumbass in particular. We got another Joe Straus on our hands.

Posted by: Communist Party of China, June 1966 at February 17, 2021 08:33 AM (49Dnm)

235 Happy Birthday, Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing!

Many happy returns.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 08:33 AM (LvTSG)

236 Dennis Prager: "Those who acknowledge how flawed human nature is compare America to reality. Those who do not, compare America to some utopian image: a country free of inequality, prejudices, intolerance, sexual misbehavior, greed, etc. "

Prager hits the nail on the head. The Progressives are detached from physical-world and human behavior reality. They have the time and luxury to do this, living in the most free and wealthy country that's ever existed. While cursing the people and means that gave them the luxury to dream of, and work to impose, their insane beliefs.

Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2021 08:33 AM (AMIL/)

237 JJ seems to be constantly reminded that it is the blue states that generally psy more to DC than the red states that ste sort of on federal welfare, and furthermore it has always been as Lincoln said we have to you appear to a battle angels these guys are not and women they are in fact demented. .

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 08:33 AM (x3HuE)

238 Weather Channel idiot this morning said Texas was unable to get its gas and oil power to run and the solar and wind power is only running at fifty percent which is why they are having power blackouts. He was trying to tell me that oil and gas are unworkable.
Posted by: Jen the original

23% of our power comes from wind.
The turbines ARE FROZEN, thousands of acres of solar panels are under snow.

The ONLY things working are oil, gas and coal.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 08:33 AM (G0G8s)

239 23% of our grid is wind. The part of the grid that didn't work? That was ALSO 23%. Yeah. Wind. Kinda done pursuing "green energy".
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 08:26 AM (G0G8s)

As a man that works in the power industry - wind is a hoax. The best utilization rate, the ratio of rated power compared to real power produced, is never better than 25% for wind. So that 1 MW wind turbine ? You really get about 250 kW on average. I was just in Minnesota on a job - they went big on wind. Not ever repairing them now, and doing demo in place as they fail, because the utilization rate was 12%. They'll have blackouts in the next five years. Watch.

Posted by: Main Street at February 17, 2021 08:33 AM (giapq)

240 Any industry that requires subsidies is by definition not sustainable.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 17, 2021 08:33 AM (nUhF0)

241 From the sidebar "Dan Crenshaw, who tries to obscure his establishment/corporate cvck politics with a tough-guy schtick, continues running for President... of National Review, and of course he has them all moist"

I'm a rising star in the GOPe! All the best parts of Jeb! and Juan McCain, with enough faux conservative bona fides to fool the rubes. I'm the future of the party! I just wish I were a LGBTQ+ BIPOC woman to really seal the deal.

Posted by: Dan Crenshaw at February 17, 2021 08:34 AM (3MG/9)

242 Number one export point for U.S. oil and gas. But yeah, single point of failure windmill power with no backup plan seems like a good idea.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 08:34 AM (VpIIl)

243 Somewhere in America, a mom has a failure-to-launch proud moderate living in her basement.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at February 17, 2021 08:34 AM (TdMsT)

244 Which has killed more people:

[ ] The Three Mile Island 'Disaster'

[ ] The loss of heating ability in Texas due to a failed power source to the grid

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2021 08:34 AM (3D/fK)

245 "If you know what you're getting into, solar can be good. I just don't want the damn grid relying on it." Posted by: Ian S

right. Panels have improved a lot. I still plan to put in about 10K worth, but it is more of a partial prepper type thing. It is pretty cool though, to make electricity from sun. -- There is a 12% chance of a Carrington event in the next decade (if you believe NASA). I figure another 12% chance of an EMP from China/Norks/Iran ... so I just need to figure how to harden mine, and it could be a decent investment, since they are turning our cash into trash. ... And I'll get social credit points to offset my whiteness.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 17, 2021 08:34 AM (Cus5s)

246 OK, commies. Go advocate for changing the definition of red lights to mean "go".

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 08:34 AM (49Dnm)

247 "What more do we need?

Posted by: Ziba"

AOC in charge of Science and Energy.

Posted by: Ripley at February 17, 2021 08:34 AM (MxEKc)

248 JJ seems to be constantly reminded that it is the blue states that generally psy more to DC than the red states that ste sort of on federal welfare
Posted by: Proud Moderate at February 17, 2021 08:29 AM (lMTkX)

You're wrong, as usual, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to show you why.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 08:35 AM (2JVJo)

249

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 08:35 AM (LvTSG)

250 But at least we don't have Trump's Tweets- amirite?
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 08:31 AM (VpIIl)

Yes! Just last week I was in bed with my catamite when we began discussing orange man bad's tweets and....

Oh.

Never mind.

Posted by: John Weaver, Sodomite at February 17, 2021 08:35 AM (R/m4+)

251 The next time The Good Idea Fairy compels someone to come up with a "green power" scheme, they should throat punch her.

Posted by: Texas at February 17, 2021 08:35 AM (VpIIl)

252 That sentence wasn't aimed at you and I'm surprised
you thought it was. Either American Thinker is committed to free speech
or they're not.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 08:17 AM (y7DUB)

==================
they were obviously forced to choose between their own free speech or their commenters. A Dominion suit was going to be funded by the left, so unlimited resources, and while it would ultimately amount to nothing in a legal sense, process is punishment. In these extreme times the site made a decision to keep publishing.

I agree they shaved their principles to do so. Hobson's choices are like that. Before we are done with this tyranny, all of us will face choices like this one (or far worse).

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 17, 2021 08:35 AM (nkc1K)

253 happy birfday MP4!!
--------
"Get quotes on replacing the bearings before you spring for one. Usually a killer."

Get the good bearings, made in China.

Cheaper, too.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2021 08:25 AM (3D/fK)

as a former reman engineer, i can tell you that they have gotten VERY good at their knockoffs. i've had guys from SKF and Timken tell me they could barely figure out which was fake, until they cut them in half. or they failed, which was usually the case...

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 17, 2021 08:35 AM (8D42x)

254 When I build my compound it will have wind and solar. Because it will be off-grid. But it will also have gas powered generators. Everything except my own reactor.

Posted by: blaster at February 17, 2021 08:22 AM

The only way to have a truly independent power supply is hydro. I tried to buy a property to convert to my home that was built by Henry Ford as a small factory. It had a working generator and mill pond that could put out 120KW continuously. Ford Motor Co. even said it would clean up the trace amounts of heavy metal at one end of the property.

A lying, thieving banker who was handling the repossessed property sold it in an underhanded deal to a friend of his as we were trying to finalize the deal.

Posted by: jwest at February 17, 2021 08:35 AM (/BlEx)

255 249 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 08:35 AM (2JVJo)

Happy birthday MP! Now get in that barrel and marinate!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:35 AM (s2VJv)

256 Don't misunderstand the sentiment here...let's make Trump our Ayatollah.

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2021 08:36 AM (AwYPR)

257 233 The fake news are filled with joy and mirth today that still red Texas, which voted for Trump who denies global warming BTW, is suffering power outages and rolling blackouts. caused by global warming. (Which Trump denies, in case you missed it.)
Posted by: Ripley at February 17, 2021 08:32 AM (MxEKc)

Haters gonna hate. I guess TX could cut off the oil. That would be fun.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 08:37 AM (49Dnm)

258 It's easy to be brave when you aren't the one facing financial ruination. That's been the basis of corporate-on-citizen lawsuits for decades.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2021 08:28 AM (6XLoz)

I can play this game too. I don't hold myself as being some principled exemplar of free speech until it becomes problematic. So keep idolizing Lifson all you want. I'm out.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 08:37 AM (y7DUB)

259 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Happy Birthday!

God of all creation.
We offer you grateful praise for the gift of life
Hear the prayers for MPPPP-whose real name some of us know-but which has always been known to you, Lord. Today he recalls the day of his birth. Thanks for his gifts of writing and caring and creativity. Bless him with your presence and surround him with your love that he might know he is valued in your sight, Lord, and in the sight of others, and may he have blessings this day and in the year ahead. Amen

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2021 08:37 AM (VP4Cd)

260 Old but timely article on the heathen idolatry of environmentalism.

https://tinyurl.com/1ilefi9d

Posted by: Citizen sans nation at February 17, 2021 08:37 AM (yQokc)

261 May be a good time for a reminder: Cold kills in large numbers. Warm may be uncomfortable, but cold kills.

Oh, the Humanity! /s

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 17, 2021 08:37 AM (MIKMs)

262 The next time The Good Idea Fairy compels someone to come up with a "green power" scheme, they should throat punch her.

***

There was a hint above at why so many state and federal politicians are full steam ahead on the people killing, job killing, productivity killing Green New Deal:

"Nancy Pelosi's Recent Stock Purchase Raises Important Ethics Issues For All Of Congress"

The people in power making the deals and laws couldn't give a shit less about America. They see an opportunity to make enormous wealth for themselves and their families. The end.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 08:38 AM (x3HuE)

263 The people in power making the deals and laws couldn't give a shit less about America. They see an opportunity to make enormous wealth for themselves and their families. The end.

***

See also:

Republicans in Georgia at election time.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 08:38 AM (x3HuE)

264 Happy Birthday to MPPPP, from one who likewise has amethyst as a birthstone.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 08:38 AM (49Dnm)

265 The Progressives are ideologues run amok. They are about social dissolution not community or freedom. That's what is unfolding in front of us. That is the reality right under our noses.

Posted by: Ziba at February 17, 2021 08:39 AM (S1hrL)

266 If the blue states really did pay the freight for everything - you'd think they wouldn't mind if all the red states just, you know, left. It would be addition by subtraction for the northeast and west coast, would it not ?

Posted by: Main Street at February 17, 2021 08:39 AM (giapq)

267 Interestingly enough, the call to strip Sen. Cruz of his Deah Old Hahvahd degree illustrates the point how devalued and dumbed down the university system has become.

In these cretins eyes, a degree is the ultimate in Credentialism. They can't even change a fucking tire, but they have a degree, a "license" in their mind, to tell all those ignorant hick rubes out in Flyover JesusLand what the fuck to do, and how wrong they are about everything.

In their minds it is very much like a blue checkmark. The Good Liberal Seal Of Approval - my College Degree.

They can't reason their way out of a paper sack, have no sense of history, reject facts, logic, faith and reason - but they are the annointed ones. Just ask them.

Then - they call you "anti intellectual". Never forget these are just stupid fuckers, pseudo intellectuals. And they know it, so it causes immense hatred and petty vindictiveness. Your decency, charity, willingness to compromise, live and let live, altruism, etc., cannot go unchallenged and MUST be punished.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 17, 2021 08:39 AM (/krQw)

268 Disney is rebooting Doogie Howser, MD with a mixed race 16 year old female lead, Doogie Kamealoha MD.

Not unexpected, not even original.

Pics of the original Doogie, Neil Patrick Harris, celebrating the announcement, are sad. He's 47 now, but looks 67.

Posted by: squeakywheel at February 17, 2021 08:39 AM (iDGpQ)

269 Our town started a green power scheme. They actually made people opt out (not in). The way they did the changeover a lot of people missed the opt out notice, which was time sensitive. They also has preeminence over the power company, who had no role in the change. People called the power company to complain and they just redirected them to the town. It's a laughable exercise in Marxism.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 08:40 AM (VpIIl)

270 the new MA climate bill contains economic justice provisions to level the playing field

like making my house in the Berkshires more valuable because you wont be able to build one like it

Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2021 08:40 AM (6iURM)

271 Fraud and Thief is also going after the NLRB and trying to compel unions into use.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 08:41 AM (VpIIl)

272 Thanks, TJM. Wouldn't do to spend the b-day in the barrel.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 08:41 AM (2JVJo)

273 Dear Sugartits,
23% of our grid is wind. The part of the grid that didn't work? That was ALSO 23%. Yeah. Wind.
Kinda done pursuing "green energy".
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 08:26 AM (G0G8s)

Rick see my math above!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 08:42 AM (yrol0)

274 If you've ever had a family member in rapid cognitive decline, you realize Fraud Biden is just counting the days. He can't complete a paragraph.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 08:43 AM (VpIIl)

275 I'd say that anyone who signs that petition is too dumb to be attending Harvard. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2021 08:29 AM (bDqIh)

Alternatively: Just dumb enough.

Posted by: blaster at February 17, 2021 08:43 AM (ZfRYq)

276 Fenelon!

**blushes**

I do not deserve that. But thank you, dear lady.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 08:44 AM (2JVJo)

277
everything with the word "Nuclear" in it either blows up or makes mutants and you end up with people living underneath NYC and worshipping a bomb, you know.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 08:25 AM (bxPTJ)

The opposition to nuclear is partly fear of what could go wrong, and partly moral outrage that, as the Progs see it, the US would productively use a technology that was developed solely to kill masses of non-Whites and was in-fact used to do so. In other words, another Caucasian US sin like slavery.

Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2021 08:44 AM (AMIL/)

278 Glory Be! The power is back on! Thawing operations in progress.

A hearty FU to ERCOT and CenterPoint.

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 08:44 AM (4I/2K)

279 better tell the world's 3rd largest economy that diversity is the key to prosperity

Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2021 08:44 AM (6iURM)

280 Biggest lies of all time;

1) Biden is cognitively sound
2) Hunter Biden has no financial links to the Chinese
3) I won't do that thing in your mouth

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 08:44 AM (VpIIl)

281 225 211 I can save him the time & money. Stop chasing green lefty BS power generation schemes and build some nuclear power plants.
Posted by: BifBewalski - Texas Needs To Fix This at February 17, 2021 08:30 AM (VcFUs)

==========

"Nah, bro."
-Texas Energy Commission, chasing industry prizes, not customer satisfaction
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 08:31 AM (LvTSG)

What sucks is that it took something like 10 years to get the South Texas NUCLEAR Project off the ground. (1978-198

And Houston Lighting and Power, the lead UTILITY behind it, so badly mismanaged the construction, that all the other UTILITIES participating in the project sued, and indeed, HL&P was held viable for their mismanagement of the
thing.

The China Syndrome is less my concern than dumbasses in government.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 08:44 AM (49Dnm)

282 One of the many things I have done in my life is that I was analyst in the energy industry for a while.

The licenses for the reactors will expire. A lot of them are running on emergency extensions. Someday they will not be allowed to extend.

And the dams. They will be breached. It has already started.

Posted by: blaster at February 17, 2021 08:45 AM (ZfRYq)

283 The very phrase "green power" is a joke. It implies permanence and harmony. Neither is true.

Everything we do is a conversion of one form of energy to another, and there is NO SUCH THING as 100% efficient conversion. We simply take natural energy - in a form we can't control - and convert it to a form we can control, at a net loss. That's how it works.

Solar is diverting energy that would normally impact the earth, and diverting it. Wind is diverting energy that would do "something" and diverting it. Since both net sources are so big, and our initial divergence so small, we simply don't - and shouldn't, yet - consider the consequences.

But do either, on a large enough scale, and there surely will be consequences. Which the mushy headed liberal fucks never consider - because they are fools and simpletons.

Posted by: Main Street at February 17, 2021 08:45 AM (giapq)

284 245 Which has killed more people:

[ ] The Three Mile Island 'Disaster'

[ ] The loss of heating ability in Texas due to a failed power source to the grid

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2021 08:34 AM (3D/fK)

Waiting on proof of life text from Mom, in Falls County, TX.

Posted by: BifBewalski - Texas lefties are about to make my ledger at February 17, 2021 08:45 AM (VcFUs)

285 Up until that murderer started murdering people he was very non-murderous.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 08:46 AM (x3HuE)

286
If they tell Dominion to go to hell, they'll get crushed and put out of business.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:20 AM (s2VJv)

And survival trumps principles in most cases, so the goal of the left is to make everyone who is not a leftist appear to be a threat to survival. That is the point of antifa propaganda.

Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 08:46 AM (ONvIw)

287 You daywalkers missed out on brief exerpts of a thrilling light turkey erotica provided in the ONT.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 17, 2021 08:46 AM (l6b3d)

288 They're crowing about retail sales numbers in January. Those numbers are the result of Trump and his policies. There is also a bump from stimulus handouts.

Wait until the smoke clears and this Meat Puppet's destruction comes to the fore

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 08:46 AM (VpIIl)

289 The China Syndrome is less my concern than dumbasses in government.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 08:44 AM (49Dnm)

Pepsi Syndrome has always scared me.

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2021 08:46 AM (AwYPR)

290 I will say this about the snow; it hides the ugliness of winter.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 17, 2021 08:46 AM (3H9h1)

291
Everything we do is a conversion of one form of energy to another, and there is NO SUCH THING as 100% efficient conversion. We simply take natural energy - in a form we can't control - and convert it to a form we can control, at a net loss. That's how it works.

**

Yep.

When a solar panel production factory runs entirely on solar, or a windmill entirely on wind, THEN I'll listen to your dumbass proposals about 100% of everyone else's energy coming from those sources.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 08:47 AM (x3HuE)

292 I have pencils smarter than Jen Psuckme

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 08:47 AM (VpIIl)

293 Yeah. Wind.

Kinda done pursuing "green energy".

If that technology was truly viable and worked well, we would be using it already.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 17, 2021 08:47 AM (HaL55)

294 Alternatively: Just dumb enough.
Posted by: blaster at February 17, 2021 08:43 AM (ZfRYq)

Another alternatively: compliant enough to do as we say and act the way we want.

Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 08:48 AM (ONvIw)

295 Wait until the smoke clears and this Meat Puppet's destruction comes to the fore

**

It won't matter, sadly. Look at Obama's eight years. Like then, things will be Trumps fault.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 08:48 AM (x3HuE)

296 181 Wonder how many Tesla cars, Chevy Bolts, and other 100% electric vehicles are in TX right now. How many of them are unusable because they can't be charged due to power outages?
Meanwhile lifted 4x4s are out doing beer runs and doing donuts in the snow.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 17, 2021 08:25 AM (N39Ws)

You don't understand, along with your Tesla you have to buy a home Diesel Generator, so you can charge your Tesla whenever the power is out. That's Green Energy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 08:49 AM (bxPTJ)

297 The entire administration has the collective intelligence of a shoe.

Posted by: Citizen sans nation at February 17, 2021 08:49 AM (yQokc)

298 If that technology was truly viable and worked well, we would be using it already.

****

SHUT YOUR ANTI-SCIENCE MOUTH, CITIZEN

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 08:49 AM (x3HuE)

299 294 I have pencils smarter than Jen Psuckme
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven

not that I would ever allow it, but my dick would be the smartest thing to ever come out of her mouth

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 17, 2021 08:49 AM (FZYNt)

300 277 Posted by: Proud Moderate at February 17, 2021 08:43 AM (lMTkX)

Liar. And you are out of here.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 08:49 AM (s2VJv)

301 Climate justice: Mother Nature freezing your windmills stiff and your balls off because you refused to use her oil and gas.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 08:49 AM (VpIIl)

302 "The entire administration has the collective intelligence of a shoe."

Da Fuqua?

Posted by: A Shoe at February 17, 2021 08:50 AM (3D/fK)

303 Hey, Punchy's doing great! Just ask him:

https://tinyurl.com/4ml68h5d

Posted by: Boswell at February 17, 2021 08:50 AM (w2LAm)

304 well, I guess my childhood home is frozen

farm in east TX is underwater

literally

Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2021 08:51 AM (6iURM)

305 If that technology was truly viable and worked well, we would be using it already.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 17, 2021 08:47 AM (HaL55)

The Model T completely replaced the horse and buggy in less than 10 years, and without a single govt. subsidy.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 08:51 AM (1ISKN)

306 Cell towers are off line too.

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 08:51 AM (4I/2K)

307 When a solar panel production factory runs entirely on solar, or a
windmill entirely on wind, THEN I'll listen to your dumbass proposals
about 100% of everyone else's energy coming from those sources.

I can't imagine - simply can't, and I have a rough working knowledge of these things - how big a battery facility would need to be to store the amount of energy needed to run a medium sized manufacturing facility for a day. Just a single day, mind you, in the middle of storm season with no solar production. And this capacity would be needed every day for any factory running part of second and all of third shift. Or - as we would call it - a modern damn production plant post industrial revolution.

I think I'll work some numbers. Back in a second.

Posted by: Main Street at February 17, 2021 08:51 AM (giapq)

308 289 You daywalkers missed out on brief exerpts of a thrilling light turkey erotica provided in the ONT.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 17, 2021 08:46 AM (l6b3d)

The breast meat palpitations were the shizznick

Posted by: BifBewalski - hubba hubba at February 17, 2021 08:52 AM (VcFUs)

309 I have pencils smarter than Jen Psuckme
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven

not that I would ever allow it, but my dick would be the smartest thing to ever come out of her mouth
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 17, 2021 08:49 AM (FZYNt)

+1

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 08:52 AM (4I/2K)

310 @263:

Correct. Mr. Global Warming, Al Gore, invested heavily in the technology he touted. Michael Freaking Moore actually called out Democratic politicians who were putting on the Climate Change Medicine Show while buying shares in the technology they touted. What is happening in Texas is a taste of things to come. A Northeastern city--Boston is a good candidate--will have a mass casualty event in the near future because of this insanity. With any luck, this will spur on the State being toppled.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 17, 2021 08:52 AM (puu6v)

311 If you've ever had a family member in rapid cognitive decline, you
realize Fraud Biden is just counting the days. He can't complete a
paragraph.
BTDT. It's a sad thing to see happen. Demoprogs have no room to talk to anyone about some fantasy "insurrection." We on the Right didn't prop up and vote for someone with dementia for preezy.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 17, 2021 08:52 AM (HaL55)

312 Get ready for 4 years of MFM gaslighting about the "roaring economy." Right back to the Obama years - it will be roaring only for the 1% corporate oligarchs.

Posted by: Oog at February 17, 2021 08:53 AM (Bmy3R)

313 You know how I know that 'Green Energy' will not lead to our nation becoming energy independent?

Because the Left hasn't banned 'Green Energy'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2021 08:53 AM (3D/fK)

314 Texas Mayor stepped down

Colorado City, Texas (West Texas)
Texas mayor tells residents to fend for themselves during power outage: "Only the strong will survive"

https://wapo.st/3bttstd

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 08:53 AM (G0G8s)

315 Joe "Put you back in chains" Biden is a hero of the black man. That much is unquestionable. Joe "Corn Pop was a bad dude" Biden is, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 08:53 AM (UZVEt)

316 Climate justice: Mother Nature freezing your windmills stiff and your balls off because you refused to use her oil and gas.
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 08:49 AM (VpIIl)

Swift and certain, she be.

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 08:53 AM (4I/2K)

317 I know CBD doesn't know it's my birthday, but I hope today's art is some luscious piece of Victorian femininity.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 08:54 AM (2JVJo)

318 Just what is climate justice? Do black people get less sunshine and more tornadoes becasue of racism?

Posted by: Ripley at February 17, 2021 08:54 AM (MxEKc)

319 314 Texas Mayor stepped down

Colorado City, Texas (West Texas)
Texas mayor tells residents to fend for themselves during power outage: "Only the strong will survive"

Leadership at its finest.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 17, 2021 08:55 AM (Bmy3R)

320 It's a sad thing to see happen. Demoprogs have no room to talk to anyone about some fantasy "insurrection." We on the Right didn't prop up and vote for someone with dementia for preezy.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 17, 2021 08:52 AM (HaL55)

And the donks were very pro insurrection this summer. Sullivan named his little subset of antifa "Insurgence USA". It is for an insurrection, that ActBlue allowed these people to fundraise, and why the "enabling ecosystem" of the media helps like crazy.

Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 08:55 AM (ONvIw)

321 Blue locusts didn't hafta relocate to Texas to kill the state, they just had to install their wind farms there.

Posted by: BluesFish at February 17, 2021 08:55 AM (WQZ1O)

322 306 Cell towers are off line too.

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 08:51 AM (4I/2K)

because the backup generators either ran the diesel fuel supply dry or the LPG supply was cut by the utility companies. You will be made to suffer. And care. But mostly suffer

Posted by: BifBewalski - I'm not paranoid, they really are out to get me at February 17, 2021 08:55 AM (VcFUs)

323 Electricity is a terrible medium for storing energy. It's not in its nature. Its practically miraculous for transmitting energy over long distances, but converting it to chemical energy and storing it in batteries and then back to electricity is not the most efficient way to use it.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 08:55 AM (xfb67)

324 Colorado City, Texas (West Texas)
Texas mayor tells residents to fend for themselves during power outage: "Only the strong will survive"

Leadership at its finest.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 17, 2021 08:55 AM (Bmy3R)

Son, you're on your own.

Posted by: Guy from Blazing Saddles at February 17, 2021 08:56 AM (lmikk)

325 "Only the strong will survive"

Push come to shove, this maxim is never wrong.

Posted by: Citizen sans nation at February 17, 2021 08:56 AM (yQokc)

326 MP4, Happy Birthday. I will raise a glass in your honor later today.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 17, 2021 08:56 AM (91ldY)

327 My cousin from Cali is moving to TX but I promise she won't "vote Cali." She's a big-time Trumper (secretly, in CA.)

Posted by: Guy Smiley at February 17, 2021 08:56 AM (Bmy3R)

328 You can blame the political machines that wield absolute power and control over the bureaucracies and the electoral systems to a certain extent but ultimately, it's the fault of people who continually elect leftwing asshole after asshole who raise taxes, welcome illegal aliens, unlock the jails, regulate small businesses out of existence and brainwash children into subliterate robots forever dependent on The State. And then when these people flee the misery they brought upon themselves, they take their voting habits with them and elect the same leftist stooges to wreak havoc on the place they sought refuge.
++++
I think this has gotten more complicated in light of recent events. The latter is certainly true and I have lived through it. CO, a state away from which I am moving very soon, has been ruined by the locusts from the coast. This used to be a great place and now the Front Range is increasingly a shithole and the cancer is spreading.

But I think there gets to be a point where the accumulated mistakes of the past mean that "continuing to vote for it" - or not - is an irrelevant question. They take what they want, vote be damned. You can't let them in even once.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 08:56 AM (UZVEt)

329 Electricity is a terrible medium for storing energy. It's not in its
nature. Its practically miraculous for transmitting energy over long
distances, but converting it to chemical energy and storing it in
batteries and then back to electricity is not the most efficient way to
use it.

The Laws of Physics: how do it work?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 17, 2021 08:57 AM (HaL55)

330 Son, you're on your own.
Posted by: Guy from Blazing Saddles

somebody run back to town and get a shit load of dimes

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 17, 2021 08:57 AM (FZYNt)

331 The Left: a human EMP.

Posted by: Citizen sans nation at February 17, 2021 08:57 AM (yQokc)

332 330 Son, you're on your own.
Posted by: Guy from Blazing Saddles

somebody run back to town and get a shit load of dimes
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 17, 2021 08:57 AM (FZYNt)

=========

"They lose me after the bunker scene."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 08:57 AM (LvTSG)

333 "and storing it in batteries and then back to electricity is not the most efficient way to use it."

Can we store it in convicted murderers?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2021 08:57 AM (3D/fK)

334 Great job, JJ
Thank you sir.
Sorry I am late but after hitting your link to Ercot. I fired off a 4-star edition rant to my beloved Texas gov and reps. It would be proud to share it here but suffice to say pixey can suck it.
More snow last night. Power rolls every 45 min but not exact. Temp is 21. Way up. But no sun
Have a fantastic day
Punch in and take a break.
Oh yeah let them mud bugs be

Posted by: CarpetheadLaRo at February 17, 2021 08:57 AM (/8e9W)

335 270 Our town started a green power scheme. They actually made people opt out (not in). The way they did the changeover a lot of people missed the opt out notice, which was time sensitive. They also has preeminence over the power company, who had no role in the change. People called the power company to complain and they just redirected them to the town. It's a laughable exercise in Marxism.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 08:40 AM (VpIIl)

I fear that by the time the plebs scream loud enough about outrageous electricity costs and rolling blackouts due to increasing renewable crap, it will take years to re-activate old and construct new natural gas and coal generating plants to make up for the units mothballed or demolished due to green energy mandates. There is a cost and blackout nightmare in the making. But it is going to be hard to reverse the current trend.

It will take a lot more than one Texas Winter of 2021 event to wake-up enough plebs and politicians.

Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2021 08:58 AM (AMIL/)

336 I did an energy presentation for some grade schoolers years ago. After the presentation, one child said, "don't oil, gas and coal come from the earth?". I replied, "yes". The child then responded, "then how come people say it hurts Mother Earth. Isn't she providing those for us so we can live?".

The teacher spit her coffee.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 08:58 AM (VpIIl)

337 323 Electricity is a terrible medium for storing energy. It's not in its nature. Its practically miraculous for transmitting energy over long distances, but converting it to chemical energy and storing it in batteries and then back to electricity is not the most efficient way to use it.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 08:55 AM (xfb67)

I seem to recall some ideas people had for storing power (to make solar and wind work when they are not working.) One was having huge reservoirs where you pump water into the reservoir when the demand was low but supply was high and then use the water from the reservoir to power hydro electric when demand was high, but supply was low.

Seemed like a big project that was prohibitive, except in the very long term.

Posted by: Guy from Blazing Saddles at February 17, 2021 08:58 AM (lmikk)

338 The teacher spit her coffee.
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven

spit or swallow, the age old question...

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 17, 2021 08:59 AM (FZYNt)

339 Can anyone tell me of time when a massive technological leap was made by a date set a few years out because the massive technological leap was required by law?

Also: Why do people still die of cancer?

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 08:59 AM (x3HuE)

340 /off Blazing Saddles sock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2021 09:00 AM (lmikk)

341 Also: Why do people still die of cancer?
Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third

cause COVID can't get them all

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 17, 2021 09:00 AM (FZYNt)

342 it will decades upon decades of green energy failure for the left to ever admit the mistake

and then it will take decades upon decades to restore the system

actually a great way to destroy a country

right, China

Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2021 09:00 AM (6iURM)

343 With any luck the outgoing mayor will go learn English as it is a foreign language to him. "Power provider"? Maybe saying "utility" is just too hard?

(But every bloody business and profession is a "provider" these days. God I hate what has become of English.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 09:00 AM (49Dnm)

344 Seemed like a big project that was prohibitive, except in the very long term.

Posted by: Guy from Blazing Saddles at February 17, 2021 08:58 AM (lmikk)

There are facilities called "pumped storage" that already exist and our used by utilities to balance loads.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 09:01 AM (xfb67)

345 but converting it to chemical energy and storing it in batteries and then back to electricity is not the most efficient way to use it
=====

Slave labor will be provided. /s

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 17, 2021 09:01 AM (MIKMs)

346 Electricity is a terrible medium for storing energy. It's not in its nature. Its practically miraculous for transmitting energy over long distances, but converting it to chemical energy and storing it in batteries and then back to electricity is not the most efficient way to use it.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 08:55 AM (xfb67)
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The losses on each transition are pretty staggering. Of course, generation isn't exactly efficient either since heat is usually a middle step (except hydro), but you can achieve improving systemic efficiency overall.

But in essence, electricity isn't about efficiency at its core. If it can be efficient, great, but that isn't the point. The point is life itself. The entire modern world since the 19th century depends on three things: clean water, refrigeration and sanitation. Life as we know it has those three corner stones, with transportation immediately behind the Big Three. Those corner stones require tremendous gobs of energy. iPhones and TV sets and lights are great, but life goes on without them. Life doesn't go on without the Big Three (or Four). Those that hate cheap, reliable energy actually hate human life and happiness.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:01 AM (UZVEt)

347 There are facilities called "pumped storage" that already exist and our used by utilities to balance loads.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Pumped Storage was the SS code name for Reggie and Barack behind closed doors

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 17, 2021 09:01 AM (FZYNt)

348 the TX cold has closed some refineries apparently, and some natural gas supplies are also restricted (?) ... not sure on details of why, but mostly, some operations for oil and gas are also not hardened for such cold. ... so it is not just the "green energy" that is causing the shortages (of electricity, but also a problem for some of the natural gas directly used for heat)

Posted by: illiniwek at February 17, 2021 09:02 AM (Cus5s)

349 I know CBD doesn't know it's my birthday, but I hope today's art is some luscious piece of Victorian femininity.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 08:54 AM (2JVJo)

I'm holdin' out for some Alberto Vargas works.

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2021 09:02 AM (AwYPR)

350 I don't know if it it will be on the prayer list today, but please pray for "Rosasharn" and her daughter. Rosaharn's husband, Dennis, passed away on February 11th.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2021 09:02 AM (VP4Cd)

351 Comments are pretty hot this am. This is good.

That sentence wasn't aimed at you and I'm surprised you thought it was. Either American Thinker is committed to free speech or they're not.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 08:17 AM (y7DUB)

CH, I am a fan of yours. I quote you, and on occasion, you quote me. AT was faced with an existential lawsuit crisis. They chose to fold for the time being and even acknowledged it.

Ace hisself has faced the same sort of lawfare, and so far has won. Do you begrudge him that?

Posted by: GnuBreed, oh well at February 17, 2021 09:02 AM (F0YaR)

352 "Seemed like a big project that was prohibitive, except in the very long term."

I believe the Oconee nuclear power plant, and lake Keowee has that exact capability.

During the lower power requirement periods, the plant uses massive pumps to pump water back up to the lake.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2021 09:02 AM (3D/fK)

353 Worked with a company that tried chemical storage of solar by heating salt in big tanks. It failed spectacularly - because everybody involved tried to cut corners on just how expensive it is to build a tank that can withstand the abuse of containing molten salts.

Posted by: Main Street at February 17, 2021 09:02 AM (giapq)

354 334 Great job, JJ
Thank you sir.
Sorry I am late but after hitting your link to Ercot. I fired off a 4-star edition rant to my beloved Texas gov and reps. It would be proud to share it here but suffice to say pixey can suck it.
More snow last night. Power rolls every 45 min but not exact. Temp is 21. Way up. But no sun
Have a fantastic day
Punch in and take a break.
Oh yeah let them mud bugs be
Posted by: CarpetheadLaRo at February 17, 2021 08:57 AM (/8e9W)

Sweet! Not that my worthless Rep (#8

and Sen (#31) will listen to me, but I will do the same anyway to salve my conscience.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 09:02 AM (49Dnm)

355 "I do not understand the opposition to nuclear power."

It's, "NUCULARR!"

Posted by: GWB at February 17, 2021 09:03 AM (5ZHS+)

356 Remember in Soylent Green how Sol Roth had to do hours on a stationary bike just to charge an old car battery to keep the lightbulb burning. Someday, soon...

Posted by: Citizen sans nation at February 17, 2021 09:03 AM (yQokc)

357 "It will take a lot more than one Texas Winter of 2021 event to wake-up enough plebs and politicians.
Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2021 08:58 AM (AMIL/)"

Agree completely. But like my example, what a lot of states are doing is putting their towns into these schemes involuntarily. So some of it uses the power of regulatory commissions and other state laws allowing "choice" of power suppliers and corrupting that process to get the liberals desired result. No public debate. No review of how bad it could get (like Texas). No backup plan.

In NY, when Indian Point comes off line there is no plan to replace the power is supplies. It won't come from windmills or solar. It's going to be a disaster that leads to power shortages on a grid that's already struggling and looking to "buy back" power from people with their own generation. It's going to be ugly, and nobody is doing a thing about it.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 09:03 AM (VpIIl)

358 Happy Birthday MP4

Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 09:03 AM (ONvIw)

359 Taking over the GOP has failed and will continue to fail because the GOPe are better at game theory than our side is. They have shown time and again that when their candidate loses a primary, they have no problem throwing the seat to the Democrats to prevent our candidate from winning.

While at the same time, we have been unwilling to do the same to them when our candidate loses the primary. The result, then, is that their candidates win and ours lose. Their candidates fill the seat, ours don't. They retain control of the party.

The only way to change this dynamic is to be willing to throw seats to the Democrats to prevent GOPe candidates from winning. Do this enough and the balance eventually changes. It's risky, yes. It can be even be dangerous, yes. But if you don't do this, nothing will ever change. Game Theory 101.

Posted by: president kg at February 17, 2021 09:03 AM (9npt1)

360 It's, "NUCULARR!"
Posted by: GWB

Mission Accomplished

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 17, 2021 09:03 AM (FZYNt)

361 I did an energy presentation for some grade schoolers years ago. After the presentation, one child said, "don't oil, gas and coal come from the earth?". I replied, "yes". The child then responded, "then how come people say it hurts Mother Earth. Isn't she providing those for us so we can live?".

The teacher spit her coffee.
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 08:58 AM (VpIIl)
++++
I hope you kept in touch. That young lady deserves a celebratory drink when she's old enough.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:04 AM (UZVEt)

362 Happy Birthday, MP4!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:04 AM (UZVEt)

363 I hope you kept in touch. That young lady deserves a celebratory drink when she's old enough.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

old enough?

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 17, 2021 09:05 AM (FZYNt)

364 Radio guy without power for 30+ hours said is memory foam pillows and mattress froze. "It's like sleeping on a sheet of plywood"

Posted by: Ben Had at February 17, 2021 09:05 AM (91ldY)

365 I fear that by the time the plebs scream loud enough about outrageous electricity costs and rolling blackouts due to increasing renewable crap, it will take years to re-activate old and construct new natural gas and coal generating plants to make up for the units mothballed or demolished due to green energy mandates. There is a cost and blackout nightmare in the making. But it is going to be hard to reverse the current trend.

It will take a lot more than one Texas Winter of 2021 event to wake-up enough plebs and politicians.
Posted by: Gref

All it will take is a goodly amount of rope. IYKWIMAIKTYD.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 09:05 AM (G0G8s)

366 Radio guy without power for 30+ hours said is memory foam pillows and mattress froze. "It's like sleeping on a sheet of plywood"
Posted by: Ben Had at February 17, 2021 09:05 AM (91ldY)
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Yeah, memory foam is *hard* when cold. At room temperature, it's firm but molds as your body heat transfers in. When it's cold, though, it gets pretty rigid.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:06 AM (UZVEt)

367 364 Radio guy without power for 30+ hours said is memory foam pillows and mattress froze. "It's like sleeping on a sheet of plywood"
Posted by: Ben Had

not all pillows are equal

Posted by: David Hogg at February 17, 2021 09:06 AM (FZYNt)

368 Happy, Happy Birthday, MP4!!

*sends USB birthday card with Morgan Fairchild and Joan Blondell blowing kisses*

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 09:06 AM (O+I8R)

369 348 the TX cold has closed some refineries apparently, and some natural gas supplies are also restricted (?) ... not sure on details of why, but mostly, some operations for oil and gas are also not hardened for such cold. ... so it is not just the "green energy" that is causing the shortages (of electricity, but also a problem for some of the natural gas directly used for heat)
Posted by: illiniwek at February 17, 2021 09:02 AM (Cus5s)

Natural gas pumps in many cases require...electricity.

And as far as refineries, crude and refined product can't leave by truck in all likelihood or arrive by truck. Many of the refineries closed are in Houston and I'd imagine their highway system is closed at this point though I have not seen Houston TranStar to be sure.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 09:06 AM (49Dnm)

370 By the way, states and federal governments are compelling unreasonable, unworkable and disastrous alternative energy plans. They are compelling these companies, by law, to comply with plans the power companies are stating up front will lead to severe shortages and disasters.

Then when things predictably go wrong, they point at the power companies and start threatening too take them over.

Because, you know, if the state ran things it would be so much better, and the plans more workable...

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 09:06 AM (VpIIl)

371 Electricity is a terrible medium for storing energy. It's not in its nature. Its practically miraculous for transmitting energy over long distances, but converting it to chemical energy and storing it in batteries and then back to electricity is not the most efficient way to use it.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 08:55 AM (xfb67)

legit question here, because i'm a Mech Engr and all i know about electricity is that when the magic smoke gets out, the electricity stops working...

but what about capacitors? is it a function of size, or is there some other limitation on those?

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 17, 2021 09:06 AM (8D42x)

372 In NY, when Indian Point comes off line there is no plan to replace the power is supplies. It won't come from windmills or solar. It's going to be a disaster that leads to power shortages on a grid that's already struggling and looking to "buy back" power from people with their own generation. It's going to be ugly, and nobody is doing a thing about it.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 09:03 AM (VpIIl)

A long time ago, I worked at Indian Point. It was a license to print money because NY refused to build any new generation, of any type. The biggest provider of power to NY is a feeder coming from Canada.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 09:06 AM (xfb67)

373 It's going to be ugly, and nobody is doing a thing about it.

It's going to end with net producers cutting their themselves, and their customer base, off the national grid. Which can be done.

Posted by: Main Street at February 17, 2021 09:06 AM (giapq)

374 I believe the Oconee nuclear power plant, and lake Keowee has that exact capability.

During the lower power requirement periods, the plant uses massive pumps to pump water back up to the lake.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2021 09:02 AM (3D/fK)

Bad Creek Project.....pumped from Jocassee up to Bad Creek

Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2021 09:07 AM (AwYPR)

375 Radio guy without power for 30+ hours said is memory foam pillows and mattress froze. "It's like sleeping on a sheet of plywood"
Posted by: Ben Had

Grandma's Feather Bed - John Denver
The old ways are still the best ways.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 09:07 AM (G0G8s)

376 368 Happy, Happy Birthday, MP4!!

*sends USB birthday card with Morgan Fairchild and Joan Blondell blowing kisses*
Posted by: Lady in Black

how about a Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday with JFK's DNA running down her leg?

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 17, 2021 09:07 AM (FZYNt)

377 how about a Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday with JFK's DNA running down her leg?
Posted by: Rick in SK at February 17, 2021 09:07 AM (FZYNt)
++++
That took a very rapid turn there in the middle.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:08 AM (UZVEt)

378 just saw a report from Georgetown TX

where my sis did some school work before moving onto Rice and then to UT SW in Dallas

sweetest girl in the world

however, I got another one who is a cow

Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2021 09:08 AM (6iURM)

379 Remember in Soylent Green how Sol Roth had to do hours on a stationary bike just to charge an old car battery to keep the lightbulb burning. Someday, soon...

--

Go read that idiot quote from David Ismay in the ONT. We are all to "stop emitting" and he wants to "break our will" on our addiction to, I dunno, light and heat. Even Grandma gets shoved into a cold cave. He doesn't care.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 09:08 AM (O+I8R)

380 but what about capacitors? is it a function of size, or is there some other limitation on those?

Capacitors have an inherent resistance - which means they'll discharge all on their own over time. They're great for short term storage - which is why we use them for small stuff like electronics and even larger stuff like variable frequency drives and even power factor correction for buildings. But terrible for long term storage.

Posted by: Main Street at February 17, 2021 09:09 AM (giapq)

381 336 I did an energy presentation for some grade schoolers years ago. After the presentation, one child said, "don't oil, gas and coal come from the earth?". I replied, "yes". The child then responded, "then how come people say it hurts Mother Earth. Isn't she providing those for us so we can live?".

The teacher spit her coffee.
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 08:58 AM (VpIIl)

Out of the mouths of babes. It boils down to this, for me: Carbon Is Life. Without it... "NOW HORTAS ALL WE."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 09:09 AM (s2VJv)

382 White supremacy boogeyman....but it works for them...

Posted by: runner at February 17, 2021 09:09 AM (W8e/N)

383 Ii donz't understand how Joe Biden, as senile as he is, can stand to have Kamala "The Grim Reaper " Harris hovering over him everywhere he goesl.
It's positively creepy.

Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at February 17, 2021 09:09 AM (lgiXo)

384
Go read that idiot quote from David Ismay in the ONT. We are all to "stop emitting" and he wants to "break our will" on our addiction to, I dunno, light and heat. Even Grandma gets shoved into a cold cave. He doesn't care.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 09:08 AM (O+I8R)

The blue cities will stay warm, the kulaks will be deliberately frozen.

Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 09:09 AM (ONvIw)

385 Go read that idiot quote from David Ismay in the ONT. We are all to "stop emitting" and he wants to "break our will" on our addiction to, I dunno, light and heat. Even Grandma gets shoved into a cold cave. He doesn't care.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 09:08 AM (O+I8R)
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Yeah. Ismay needs to be destroyed and the people of MA should take care of that. They won't, but they should. What he is advocating is the end of civilization. It's what they all want, of course, but most aren't stupid enough to say it out loud (and belligerently, at that).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:10 AM (UZVEt)

386 383 Ii donz't understand how Joe Biden, as senile as he is, can stand to have Kamala "The Grim Reaper " Harris hovering over him everywhere he goesl.
It's positively creepy.
Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at February 17, 2021 09:09 AM (lgiXo)

She may be a reaper, but she doesn't look grim.

Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 09:10 AM (ONvIw)

387 356 Remember in Soylent Green how Sol Roth had to do hours on a stationary bike just to charge an old car battery to keep the lightbulb burning. Someday, soon...
Posted by: Citizen sans nation at February 17, 2021 09:03 AM (yQokc)

"Pfft."

- - Gilligan Edison Co. Inc.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 09:10 AM (s2VJv)

388 It will take a lot more than one Texas Winter of 2021 event to wake-up enough plebs and politicians.

They had the same wake-up call in August of 2019 when energy prices spiked similarly because a high pressure dome killed the windmills while people continued to want to run their a/c, lights, appliances and pool pumps.

So even then with rolling black-outs they did nothing.

One month from now, they will forget that this ever happened.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 17, 2021 09:10 AM (zV48b)

389 Go read that idiot quote from David Ismay in the ONT. We are all to "stop emitting" and he wants to "break our will" on our addiction to, I dunno, light and heat. Even Grandma gets shoved into a cold cave. He doesn't care.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 09:08 AM (O+I8R)

For those of you not in MA, the bastard resigned.

Not that it will hurt him financially. He'll just get picked up somewhere else.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 09:10 AM (2JVJo)

390 Ii donz't understand how Joe Biden, as senile as he is, can stand to have Kamala "The Grim Reaper " Harris hovering over him everywhere he goesl.
It's positively creepy.

--

She needs to be p'shopped with a sickle in her hand while draped in a hooded, black robe.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 09:11 AM (O+I8R)

391 prayers for you Rosasharn. sorry

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 17, 2021 09:11 AM (8D42x)

392 "Electricity is a terrible medium for storing energy. It's not in its nature."

an old friend was working at some dam in North Carolina that was storing energy by pumping water to a higher reservoir (not sure of details, if they had a separate generator/turbine just for that pool). ... But that was more efficient than many other systems ... no losses in gravity, just dependent on pump efficiency I guess.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 17, 2021 09:11 AM (Cus5s)

393 Out of the mouths of babes. It boils down to this, for me: Carbon Is Life. Without it... "NOW HORTAS ALL WE."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 09:09 AM (s2VJv)

Big
Boy
How
doing
you
?

*sexy fringe flutter*

Posted by: Mother Horta, looking for love at February 17, 2021 09:11 AM (lmikk)

394 I know CBD doesn't know it's my birthday, but I hope today's art is some luscious piece of Victorian femininity.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 08:54 AM (2JVJo)

I'm holdin' out for some Alberto Vargas works.
Posted by: BignJames at February 17, 2021 09:02 AM (AwYPR)

it's no Rothko...

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 17, 2021 09:11 AM (8D42x)

395 The blue cities will stay warm, the kulaks will be deliberately frozen.
Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 09:09 AM (ONvIw)
++++
Not even. The enclaves of power - government buildings, the oligarchs' estates, etc. - will be warm and bright. The denizens of blue cities will just get a few hours of electricity and water per day. They'll have it good compared to the kulaks, though, who will get nothing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:11 AM (UZVEt)

396 rickb223, you got that right, I have a down mattress and comforter for winter sleeping.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 17, 2021 09:11 AM (91ldY)

397 314 Texas Mayor stepped down

Colorado City, Texas (West Texas)
Texas mayor tells residents to fend for themselves during power outage: "Only the strong will survive"

https://wapo.st/3bttstd
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 08:53 AM (G0G8s)

that's darkly funny - I wish it happened on a national level. it's what happens when nobody pays attention to politics and they allow an absolute idiot to get elected, just because he likes the title. Kinda like deh blaahhsio.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 09:12 AM (bxPTJ)

398 but what about capacitors? is it a function of size, or is there some other limitation on those?

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 17, 2021 09:06 AM (8D42x)

Capacitors slowly lose the charges built up. There are complicated ways to reduce the rate that happens, but they are expensive. I think, generally, capacitors "self discharge" faster than batteries, which do self discharge too.

Kind of like a how flywheel loses energy to windage and friction unless you put it in a vacuum or cool it to absolute zero.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 09:12 AM (xfb67)

399 how about a Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday with JFK's DNA running down her leg?
Posted by: Rick in SK

That took a very rapid turn there in the middle.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Because gravity is not your friend.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 09:12 AM (G0G8s)

400 an old friend was working at some dam in North Carolina that was storing energy by pumping water to a higher reservoir

The Romans would be proud.

Posted by: Main Street at February 17, 2021 09:12 AM (giapq)

401 One month from now, they will forget that this ever happened.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 17, 2021 09:10 AM (zV48b)

You are probably right about that, unfortunately. That's why it is what it is.

Posted by: Ziba at February 17, 2021 09:12 AM (S1hrL)

402 "A long time ago, I worked at Indian Point. It was a license to print money because NY refused to build any new generation, of any type. The biggest provider of power to NY is a feeder coming from Canada.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 09:06 AM (xfb67)"

Yes, but you know it's going to blow up and we are all going to die from the nuclear fallout. - My Kooky Neighbor

Yeah, but at least we won't die freezing to death. - Me

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 09:12 AM (VpIIl)

403 I have a long memory.... Turn on some lights, freeze a Texan. Back at ya bitches

Posted by: NativeNH at February 17, 2021 09:12 AM (dtRY5)

404 but ultimately, it's the fault of people who continually elect leftwing asshole after asshole

But is it? What part of "your elections are fraudulent" hasn't registered? Given the way petition voting consistently goes in California, I wouldn't be surprised if it has never actually been a blue state! I don't know New York as well.

Posted by: anonymous at February 17, 2021 09:12 AM (hRoyQ)

405 an old friend was working at some dam in North Carolina that was storing energy by pumping water to a higher reservoir (not sure of details, if they had a separate generator/turbine just for that pool). ... But that was more efficient than many other systems ... no losses in gravity, just dependent on pump efficiency I guess.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 17, 2021 09:11 AM (Cus5s)
++++
Hydro kicks ass. It is probably the best form of generation. Prevailing geology is only so accommodating, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:12 AM (UZVEt)

406 Parler is down. Maybe their servers are in TX.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at February 17, 2021 09:13 AM (2BZBZ)

407 The blue cities will stay warm, the kulaks will be deliberately frozen.

Exactly, the kulaks, who have to live next door to the power plants will be freezing in the dark while shipping their energy to the ungrateful and entitled blue cities.

We are stupid in that sort of way.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 17, 2021 09:13 AM (zV48b)

408 Yeah. Ismay needs to be destroyed and the people of MA should take care of that. They won't, but they should. What he is advocating is the end of civilization. It's what they all want, of course, but most aren't stupid enough to say it out loud (and belligerently, at that).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:10 AM (UZVEt)

basically a plan to raise taxes and fees to give to the black voters. All hidden behind a bunch of unsupported jibberish
and unattainable "goals "

Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2021 09:13 AM (6iURM)

409 Kind of like a how flywheel loses energy to windage and friction unless you put it in a vacuum or cool it to absolute zero.

Really good analogy. I'm stealing that one.

Posted by: Main Street at February 17, 2021 09:13 AM (giapq)

410 an old friend was working at some dam in North Carolina that was storing energy by pumping water to a higher reservoir (not sure of details, if they had a separate generator/turbine just for that pool). ... But that was more efficient than many other systems ... no losses in gravity, just dependent on pump efficiency I guess.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 17, 2021 09:11 AM (Cus5s)

it's ancient, but that's still the most efficient large scale energy storage system yet devised, since it relies on kinetic energy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 09:13 AM (bxPTJ)

411 Sorry for your loss, Rosaharn .

Posted by: runner at February 17, 2021 09:13 AM (W8e/N)

412 Yeppers!!!

Let's keep blaming those out of state locusts for all the problems those pure pristine conservative southern states
are having.

Not like the progressive don't have control of your schools, culture, and media that are turning out good little antifas, do they?

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at February 17, 2021 09:13 AM (uxUoN)

413 "Not even. The enclaves of power - government buildings, the oligarchs' estates, etc. - will be warm and bright. The denizens of blue cities will just get a few hours of electricity and water per day. They'll have it good compared to the kulaks, though, who will get nothing."

But see here, our men have to manufacture parts just to keep the air conditioning and elevators running. It takes forever, just FOR-EV-ER!

Posted by: Charles. Just Charles. It's perfectly legal! at February 17, 2021 09:14 AM (yQokc)

414 I don't know if it it will be on the prayer list today, but please pray for "Rosasharn" and her daughter. Rosaharn's husband, Dennis, passed away on February 11th.

--

Oh, no...

Rosasharn, I'm so very sorry to see that your husband has passed. My prayers to you and your family.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2021 09:14 AM (O+I8R)

415 it's ancient, but that's still the most efficient large scale energy
storage system yet devised, since it relies on kinetic energy.

Everyone that enjoys having water pressure at the tap agrees. The next time you drive past a water tower - wave at that tank and those unassuming pumps at the bottom making it all happen. Also, don't forget the fill and full float switches at the top - nobody ever thinks about them.

Posted by: Main Street at February 17, 2021 09:15 AM (giapq)

416 ho ho hey hey -
how many poor black people did "green energy" kill today?

(from new reports I saw, it did seem the poor black people were being interviewed about it being 38 degrees in their apartment, with their kids).

Posted by: illiniwek at February 17, 2021 09:16 AM (Cus5s)

417 Not even. The enclaves of power - government buildings, the oligarchs' estates, etc. - will be warm and bright. The denizens of blue cities will just get a few hours of electricity and water per day. They'll have it good compared to the kulaks, though, who will get nothing.
=====

As the Kulaks and children huddle at the walls of the Castles, praying for shelter, the power elites decree life and death over the peasantry. /s

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 17, 2021 09:16 AM (MIKMs)

418 Remember when the feds had to pass a law to make everyone buy a microwave oven?

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 09:16 AM (x3HuE)

419 The Nabataeans built Petra the middle of a desert by creating rainwater capture and storage systems carved out of rock. I am pretty sure if you let the creativity of people, not governments, take over, we would be a lot better off.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 09:16 AM (VpIIl)

420 The blue cities will stay warm, the kulaks will be deliberately frozen.

There are photos taken from balconies of darkened, power starved buildings in the suburbs of the glowing skyline, lit up like Christmas and Mardi Gras.

When asking their overlords why this is, they get the simple "Its Complex. We need to keep power to government, the hospitals, COVID wards and the Comfort Shelters".

They hit all of the politically correct hierarchy, because urban drug addicts should have a warm place to go while you are on your own. And apparently downtown hospitals don't have any back up generation like your hospital must have.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 17, 2021 09:17 AM (zV48b)

421 418 Remember when the feds had to pass a law to make everyone buy a microwave oven?

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 09:16 AM (x3HuE)

Or to take antibiotics?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 09:18 AM (xfb67)

422 Rosasharn, our prayers for you and your family in this terrible time.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 17, 2021 09:18 AM (nkc1K)

423 As the Kulaks and children huddle at the walls of the Castles, praying for shelter, the power elites decree life and death over the peasantry. /s
Posted by: mustbequantum at February 17, 2021 09:16 AM (MIKMs)

That's what these kulaks get for all their centuries of privilege.

Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 09:18 AM (ONvIw)

424 If that technology was truly viable and worked well, we would be using it already.

***

BTW, this needs to be told often to every young person you know. They are still learning and don't understand things, but this sums it up so well.

Posted by: Dr. Professor Neal Degreasse Tyson Esquire the Third at February 17, 2021 09:18 AM (x3HuE)

425 Thomas Sowell puts it best: The biggest losers in [multiculturalism] are those members of racial minorities who allow themselves to be led into the blind alley of resentment and rage, even when there are broad avenues of opportunity available. And we all lose when society is polarized.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 17, 2021 09:18 AM (yrol0)

426 The question is, what and/or who is behind this sudden torrent of truth and can he survive it politically?

Leticia James. Future first black female governor of NY

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 17, 2021 09:18 AM (dNzKv)

427 Everyone that enjoys having water pressure at the tap agrees. The next time you drive past a water tower - wave at that tank and those unassuming pumps at the bottom making it all happen. Also, don't forget the fill and full float switches at the top - nobody ever thinks about them.
Posted by: Main Street at February 17, 2021 09:15 AM (giapq)
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Shit is unbelievably complicated. Every time you flip a light switch and the lights actually come on, you are consuming a piece of the aggregate output of thousands of manufacturers, suppliers and men. The base inputs span continents. It takes the cumulative work of *millions* of people to make your lights come on. Ditto for turning the handle and having clean, safe water come pouring out of the tap like manna from heaven.

But if you don't realize that, if you don't fully grok it, you succumb to cargo cultism. The switch makes the light and the tap makes the water. If you're in that mental space, playing jiggery-pokery with the inputs doesn't seem particularly dangerous. I think that particular foolishness explains a lot of the hubris that drives poor decision making by the masters of the universe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:20 AM (UZVEt)

428 "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?"

-Romans 8:35,37

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 09:20 AM (VpIIl)

429 We are stupid in that sort of way.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 17, 2021 09:13 AM (zV48b)
............

That and in many other ways. Or we wouldn't be where we are now. Do little, do less, do nothing.

Posted by: Ziba at February 17, 2021 09:21 AM (S1hrL)

430 419 The Nabataeans built Petra the middle of a desert by creating rainwater capture and storage systems carved out of rock. I am pretty sure if you let the creativity of people, not governments, take over, we would be a lot better off.
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 09:16 AM (VpIIl)

I've always been fascinated by Petra, ever since I found an old Richard Halliburton book of pictures he took of it in the 1930's. They were good at saving water, but I also strongly suspect that the entire middle east had much higher rainfalls during the Roman Warming period than they have today. Libya, for example, was endless fields of grain, not sand. Yemen had a far higher population 2000 years ago than they do now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 09:21 AM (bxPTJ)

431 Rosasharn --I'm so terribly sorry about your loss. I will pray for you and your family. I will ask the Lord to bring you comfort, healing and peace in your time of need.

Posted by: Ladyl, Insurrectionist at February 17, 2021 09:21 AM (TdMsT)

432 Shit is unbelievably complicated. Every time you flip a light switch and the lights actually come on, you are consuming a piece of the aggregate output of thousands of manufacturers, suppliers and men. The base inputs span continents. It takes the cumulative work of *millions* of people to make your lights come on. Ditto for turning the handle and having clean, safe water come pouring out of the tap like manna from heaven.

But if you don't realize that, if you don't fully grok it, you succumb to cargo cultism. The switch makes the light and the tap makes the water. If you're in that mental space, playing jiggery-pokery with the inputs doesn't seem particularly dangerous. I think that particular foolishness explains a lot of the hubris that drives poor decision making by the masters of the universe.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:20 AM (UZVEt)

Exactly. This is a huge part of the reason why the people at the top will befoul their own nest.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 17, 2021 09:22 AM (Zm+LZ)

433 For those of you not in MA, the bastard resigned.

Not that it will hurt him financially. He'll just get picked up somewhere else.
Good. He sounds like the type who should never be allowed to have political power. The only imbecile worse than him is the imbecile who installed him in orifice.

Imbeciles hiring imbeciles...WASTF

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 17, 2021 09:22 AM (HaL55)

434 Texas is proof that if you get enough Californians together in one place, a rolling blackout occurs.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 09:23 AM (G0G8s)

435 Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 17, 2021 09:23 AM (O9w8z)

436 Yemen had a far higher population 2000 years ago than they do now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 09:21 AM (bxPTJ)

Yemen once had a substantial Jewish population, but Mohammed killed them all.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 09:23 AM (xfb67)

437 The switch makes the light and the tap makes the water.

There is also a lot of general laziness and sense of entitlement and self-absorption.

"My kids need fresh clothes three times a day so we must constantly run the washer and dryer".

Forget the apartment complex a couple blocks away that hasn't had power for days and the single mother's pantry is empty.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 17, 2021 09:23 AM (zV48b)

438 Prayers for Rosasharn & her daughter.

Posted by: WeBoned! at February 17, 2021 09:24 AM (8k7U7)

439 I've always been fascinated by Petra, ever since I found an old Richard Halliburton book of pictures he took of it in the 1930's.

Halliburton's a fascinating man. Vanished during a voyage around the world in a Chinese junk.

Rumors are that he was committing slow suicide, as the junk was so badly constructed, it wouldn't survive even a small ocean storm.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 09:24 AM (2JVJo)

440 I turn on the tap and a pump 670ft underground goes "Whirrrrrrrrrr"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 17, 2021 09:24 AM (dNzKv)

441 But if you don't realize that, if you don't fully grok it, you succumb
to cargo cultism. The switch makes the light and the tap makes the
water. If you're in that mental space, playing jiggery-pokery with the
inputs doesn't seem particularly dangerous. I think that particular
foolishness explains a lot of the hubris that drives poor decision
making by the masters of the universe.
Extremely well said.

Posted by: Main Street at February 17, 2021 09:24 AM (giapq)

442 Ladyl, did you get hit with an ice storm?

Posted by: Ben Had at February 17, 2021 09:24 AM (91ldY)

443 ho ho hey hey -
how many poor black people did "green energy" kill today?

(from new reports I saw, it did seem the poor black people were being interviewed about it being 38 degrees in their apartment, with their kids).
Posted by: illiniwek at February 17, 2021 09:16 AM (Cus5s)

Covid deaths.

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 09:24 AM (4I/2K)

444 blaster,

Please keep your West Point ring -- you earned it.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 17, 2021 09:25 AM (O9w8z)

445 Yemen had a far higher population 2000 years ago than they do now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 09:21 AM (bxPTJ)
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More importantly, Yemen had a much *smarter* population fifty years ago than they do now. Yemen's tyrants made the place unlivable and they suffered a catastrophic brain drain. Everyone worth having elsewhere got out by the end of the 70s. Add in endemic cousin marriage and another generation down the road your situation is likely unrecoverable. Yemen, due to external migration and bad practices at home, went from average to stupid inside of two generations.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:25 AM (UZVEt)

446 423 As the Kulaks and children huddle at the walls of the Castles, praying for shelter, the power elites decree life and death over the peasantry. /s
Posted by: mustbequantum at February 17, 2021 09:16 AM (MIKMs)

That's what these kulaks get for all their centuries of privilege.
Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 09:18 AM (ONvIw)

I was thinking of the history of the City of Rome, which maintained it's status as a powerful City (no matter who was running it) until about 600 AD. Then, during the Gothic Wars when the Byzantine Empire tried to retake Italy, one side or the other went around demolishing all the aqueducts that furnished water to the City. Over the next few years, population dropped from 1 million to 25 thousand, and herdsmen started keeping goats and other livestock in the old coliseum.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 09:25 AM (bxPTJ)

447 Texas is proof that if you get enough Californians together in one place, a rolling blackout occurs.

Perry and Abbot wanted them to feel at home when they were lured away from the Golden State.

Fortunately Californians will train Texans on how to get by with third world power and water supply.

It is possible to prepare a meal without the microwave. There is more to a diet than hot pockets.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 17, 2021 09:26 AM (zV48b)

448 Rosasharn, I am so sorry for your loss. You and your daughter have my prayers.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 17, 2021 09:26 AM (nUhF0)

449 It starts;

NY FRB reports that the February business survey shows widespread disruptions. There are continued declines in the service sector (a major employer), supply disruptions, negative impacts from minimum wage increases and some signs inflation is taking root.

BOHICA. Here comes The Fraud Economy

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 09:27 AM (VpIIl)

450 Yemen, due to external migration and bad practices at home, went from average to stupid inside of two generations.

Yeah, but the coffee from Yemen is good.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 17, 2021 09:27 AM (zV48b)

451 436 Yemen had a far higher population 2000 years ago than they do now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 09:21 AM (bxPTJ)

Yemen once had a substantial Jewish population, but Mohammed killed them all.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 09:23 AM (xfb67)

That was a good bit later. Given the accounts of the time it would seem much of the civilization had already degraded. Perhaps due to the cold period that arrived around the time of Attila.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 17, 2021 09:28 AM (Zm+LZ)

452 Thomas Sowell puts it best: The biggest losers in [multiculturalism] are those members of racial minorities who allow themselves to be led into the blind alley of resentment and rage, even when there are broad avenues of opportunity available. And we all lose when society is polarized.
=====

Yeah, I'm Irish.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 17, 2021 09:28 AM (MIKMs)

453 3 days ago, County Emperor Hidalgo told her subjects in Houston to 'hunker down.'

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 09:28 AM (4I/2K)

454 NYT is channeling Glenn Close - the will not be ignored, or denied access, you guys!!!

@nytimes

[Unfettered conversations are taking place on Clubhouse, an invitation-only app that lets people gather in audio chatrooms.

The platform has exploded in popularity, despite grappling with concerns over harassment, misinformation and privacy.

The speech police will not allow your unfetterd conversations, comrad!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2021 09:28 AM (bDqIh)

455 ... NY FRB reports that the February business survey shows widespread disruptions. There are continued declines in the service sector (a major employer), supply disruptions, negative impacts from minimum wage increases and some signs inflation is taking root. ...
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 09:27 AM (VpIIl)
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Unbelievable. How did things go wrong? Top Men have been guiding policy!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:28 AM (UZVEt)

456

AMerica your punnishment=

balls deep in Kamala and her cackle laugh

Posted by: will choose a nic later at February 17, 2021 09:28 AM (r4bSV)

457 454
The speech police will not allow your unfetterd conversations, comrad!!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2021 09:28 AM (bDqIh)

========

Just wait until they get a load of us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

458 The speech police will not allow your unfetterd conversations, comrad!!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2021 09:28 AM (bDqIh)
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You'd think that the free press would be in favor of free speech. In fact, the free press *is* in favor of free speech.

Any press organ that doesn't advocate for free space is clearly not free press.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:29 AM (UZVEt)

459
YeWomen.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 09:29 AM (s2VJv)

460 There used to be vineyards in Israel. Britain too.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at February 17, 2021 09:29 AM (2BZBZ)

461 460 There used to be vineyards in Israel. Britain too.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at February 17, 2021 09:29 AM (2BZBZ)

There used to be Jews in Judaism...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 09:30 AM (s2VJv)

462 449 It starts;

NY FRB reports that the February business survey shows widespread disruptions. There are continued declines in the service sector (a major employer), supply disruptions, negative impacts from minimum wage increases and some signs inflation is taking root.

BOHICA. Here comes The Fraud Economy
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 09:27 AM (VpIIl)

All my quatloos are on the megacorps and higher than expected inflation.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 17, 2021 09:30 AM (Zm+LZ)

463 ... NY FRB reports that the February business survey shows widespread
disruptions. There are continued declines in the service sector (a major
employer), supply disruptions, negative impacts from minimum wage
increases and some signs inflation is taking root.
This is what Chairman-President Xi wants for all Americans. Government by the commies, of the commies and for the commies.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 17, 2021 09:30 AM (HaL55)

464 461 460 There used to be vineyards in Israel. Britain too.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at February 17, 2021 09:29 AM (2BZBZ)

There used to be Jews in Judaism...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2021 09:30 AM (s2VJv)

That doesn't seem terribly diverse. -Liberal "Jews"

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 17, 2021 09:31 AM (Zm+LZ)

465 "I've always been fascinated by Petra, ever since I found an old Richard Halliburton book of pictures he took of it in the 1930's. They were good at saving water, but I also strongly suspect that the entire middle east had much higher rainfalls during the Roman Warming period than they have today. Libya, for example, was endless fields of grain, not sand. Yemen had a far higher population 2000 years ago than they do now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 09:21 AM (bxPTJ)"

Absolutely fascinating and there has been some recent work that is really intriguing. Agree on the NATURAL changes in climate that have occurred over the years. But I believe some of the recent work I read indicated some of the reservoirs and feeders, even though worn over the years, still captured a lot of water.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 09:31 AM (VpIIl)

466 But see here, our men have to manufacture parts just to keep the air conditioning and elevators running. It takes forever, just FOR-EV-ER!

They just ship the part in from China and replace it every few months.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 17, 2021 09:31 AM (zV48b)

467 NOOD BEACH

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:31 AM (UZVEt)

468 There used to be vineyards in Israel. Britain too.
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Greenland!

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 17, 2021 09:31 AM (MIKMs)

469 Nood "art."

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at February 17, 2021 09:32 AM (2BZBZ)

470 NY FRB reports that the February business survey shows widespread
disruptions. There are continued declines in the service sector (a major
employer), supply disruptions, negative impacts from minimum wage
increases and some signs inflation is taking root.

In six months - they'll be compelling certain skilled trades and technical folks to go to work in favored industrial sectors. Not incentivizing - compelling. Watch.

Posted by: Main Street at February 17, 2021 09:32 AM (giapq)

471 BOHICA. Here comes The Fraud Economy
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 09:27 AM (VpIIl)

All my quatloos are on the megacorps and higher than expected inflation.

May explain the explosion of interest in crypto currencies.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 17, 2021 09:33 AM (zV48b)

472 By the way, the guns in the photo are M1 Carbines.

Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2021 09:34 AM (AMIL/)

473 I think the MAGA folks should make noises every month like they are going to descend on DC, but never do it. Keep DC looking like a military coup, which it is, so the stain doesn't go away.

Let's start with an April 15th target for a "Rally on the Mall"

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2021 09:34 AM (3aI0K)

474 Comment 1/2
I had a revealing conversation with a female friend, a white suburban covid-fearing Democrat. Well-educated I guess, in the sense she has a degree from Penn and an unused law degree. Her husband makes a solid upper middle class salary doing administrative shit for a large company. I am going to try to picture the world as she sees it.

She considers herself centrist. Hates Trump with a white-hot passion, because he is a nasty bully whose mother did a puur job and, also, he mansplains every little thing. She denies he accomplished much because, if he had, the news would have reported those accomplishments. Peace in the Middle East causes her pause, because MSDNC hasn't informed her of the Abraham Accords but she was able to shake it off, secure in her base assumption that #OrangeManBad.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 17, 2021 09:35 AM (nkc1K)

475 It is possible to prepare a meal without the microwave. There is more to a diet than hot pockets.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 17, 2021 09:26 AM (zV48b)

Yes, there is popcorn too!

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 09:35 AM (4I/2K)

476 In six months - they'll be compelling certain skilled trades and technical folks to go to work in favored industrial sectors. Not incentivizing - compelling. Watch.
Posted by: Main Street at February 17, 2021 09:32 AM (giapq)
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It won't be that soon. Incentives first - tax breaks, subsidies, tax credits, energy, whatever. Skilled people make terrible slaves, and that is always the very last step. The powers that be will squeeze everyone else to fund incentives for the skilled people on whom their powerful, nice lives depend. Compulsion will come later. There is still a whole lot of loot left in this country that they can channel as they'd like before alternatives become necessary.

They are decreasingly efficient at redirection due to their corruption and incompetence, however, so things never last as long as they think (but the quantity of loot means it never degrades as quickly as we think, either).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:35 AM (UZVEt)

477 "All my quatloos are on the megacorps and higher than expected inflation.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 17, 2021 09:30 AM (Zm+LZ)"

Somewhat agree. We will get inflation and with all the helicopter money, lots of other things. I expect business activity to drop, especially consumer, manufacturing and the service sector. We will go back to the general malaise we saw last time this clown car was in charge. Taxes will go up, disposable income will decrease as will real wage growth. You will get all of the bad things that come with a managed economy and forced government programs. We will also get more encroachment by the Chinese into our economy. Look for an upside on anything linked to the commies that they will dump our money into.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 09:35 AM (VpIIl)

478 As far as power goes in general...

Civilization only advances when there is a corresponding increase in affordable energy. We've been moving backwards by trying to "conserve" everything.

This country needs to build 500 to 1000 small, modular liquid salt reactors as a government project. They would be on federal land, immune from liability and siting lawsuits. Power from them would be fed to a simple interconnected grid for free. Local utilities would charge for delivering the power.

Not only would this bulletproof the electrical capacity of the nation, but it would provide extremely low cost power to individuals for heating and cooling. Base industries would flourish because the power is their biggest expense. Just like a national highway system, a national power system would benefit the totality of the population.

Think big.

Posted by: jwest at February 17, 2021 09:36 AM (/BlEx)

479 Comment 2/2 (Continuing from 474)

She thinks Biden is very smart,
wide awake, and doing a fantastic job. He doesn't waste time and energy
arguing with anyone. Congress is peacefully going about its business,
and will start passing laws now they have dispensed with the distasteful
Trump. Until then, she is happy Biden is issuing "reasonable" EO's and
making "reasonable" changes to some of the "crazy extremist" rights
claims from Republicans. She thinks all this benign stuff might,
someday and with luck, make us more like Canada or Norway. It's all very
"reasonable". Her word.

Don't shoot the messenger (me). This is what we are up against.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 17, 2021 09:36 AM (nkc1K)

480 She thinks all this benign stuff might, someday and with luck, make us more like Canada or Norway. It's all very "reasonable". Her word.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 17, 2021 09:36 AM (nkc1K)
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She's actually right, to a point. And that is the problem. This stuff *will* make us more like Europe (it will be more like Southern Europe than Northern, but that isn't particularly important). That she and others like her *want* us to stop being ourselves and start being like someone else is the perhaps insurmountable problem we face.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 09:38 AM (UZVEt)

481 Rosasharn, my condolences.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 17, 2021 09:39 AM (O9w8z)

482 107 >>Regarding the wind turbines in Texas, my favorite photo so far is of an oil-powered helicopter spraying oil-based de-icer on one. The libs on Twitter are really cranky about people passing that one around.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2021 07:46 AM

Just for clarification, (and not in defense of the horrid, bird-killing wind turbines), the photo that everyone keeps seeing about spraying the blades is from 2016. So, fake news.
Posted by: squeakywheel at February 17, 2021 08:09 AM (iDGpQ)
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It's even more fake. If I recall, it was taken during a test of the chopper de-icing system. The whole story of blaming the wind turbines on Texas' outages is fake. Numerous power sources and equipment failed. This is not to say yay or nay to alternate energy methods overall but the turbine blame game was nonsense. We need to be aware of the fake news coming from our own teams.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at February 17, 2021 09:41 AM (MSTJr)

483 This is not to say yay or nay to alternate energy methods overall but the turbine blame game was nonsense. We need to be aware of the fake news coming from our own teams.
Posted by: Biden's Dog at February 17, 2021 09:41 AM (MSTJr)

Skeptical. The math doesn't add up. They don't have so much spare capacity that an over 90% drop in wind output wouldn't be a serious issue. And hell, this is not a new problem for regions of the world with substantial portions of their electricity supply provided by unreliables.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 17, 2021 09:44 AM (Zm+LZ)

484 Don't shoot the messenger (me). This is what we are up against.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 17, 2021 09:36 AM (nkc1K)
..........
Might want to read Am Thinker article today on the Dem's Plan. More sobering than Kamala even.

Posted by: Ziba at February 17, 2021 09:44 AM (S1hrL)

485 A bit late to the thread today, but some considerations on hardening your personal infrastructure.

Low hanging fruit, maximum insulation if possible, if building new or renovating, passive solar heating techniques (or cooling if in the hot regions), switching to led lighting throughout house, some solar electricity (better for electronics than most generators), and ground loop or open loop (pond or wells) hvac. In some regions, solar assisted water heating is also useful.
For the most part, the biggest use of electricity and/or nat gas, etc. at home is the hvac system in much of the US. If you can minimize that usage (using the earth for a heat source and sink is a big one using heat pump technology, and then hyper insulation and sealing), one can reduce one's major expenditure of energy to hot water heating (there are heat pump water heaters that are very efficient and on demand natural gas comes next--plus solar heat concentrators can quite effectively preheat the incoming water which even raising the incoming water from the 60's to the 80's increases your efficiency of water heaters substantially but this works best with tanked water heaters than on demand.)

Posted by: whig at February 17, 2021 09:46 AM (pO7gM)

486 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 17, 2021 09:44 AM (Zm+LZ)
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I also am skeptical except perhaps in particular geographic areas and for a limited non-exclusive capacity or usage. And that would be assuming fair market competition to other energy sources, without big gubbernmint subsidies/kickbacks.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at February 17, 2021 09:48 AM (MSTJr)

487 It's even more fake. If I recall, it was taken during a test of the chopper de-icing system. The whole story of blaming the wind turbines on Texas' outages is fake. Numerous power sources and equipment failed. This is not to say yay or nay to alternate energy methods overall but the turbine blame game was nonsense. We need to be aware of the fake news coming from our own teams.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at February 17, 2021 09:41 AM (MSTJr)

When environment conditions are beyond the design requirements of a device, or system of devices, guess what? Said devices and systems may not function as desired. A lot of the problems here in Texas are due to this simple fact of life.

Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2021 09:49 AM (AMIL/)

488 478 jwest,
I would agree, furthermore, we need to reprocess nuclear reactor fuel as well. That would more or less eliminate most need for nuclear waste storage at power plants.

The French have issues but their embrace of nuclear power and reprocessing has shielded them from some of the idiocies shown in countries like Germany and England.

Posted by: whig at February 17, 2021 09:50 AM (pO7gM)

489 460 There used to be vineyards in Israel.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at February 17, 2021 09:29 AM (2BZBZ)
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There is a whole lotta mighty fine wine in Israel!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at February 17, 2021 09:52 AM (MSTJr)

490 How to make antifa types pay:

https://tinyurl.com/yzydxnbm

This sort of tactic - this sort of thinking about one's options - needs to become widespread, instead of the current whine-and-put-up-with-it stuff.

Posted by: Rollory at February 17, 2021 09:52 AM (HRDJV)

491 Let's start with an April 15th target for a "Rally on the Mall"

One minor update - make it April the 19th, the day of the Waco Massacre and the subsequent OKC bombing.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 17, 2021 09:54 AM (zV48b)

492 Rosasharn, so sorry to learn of your loss. Prayers for comfort and healing in this difficult time.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at February 17, 2021 09:55 AM (z7N5c)

493 Q: How many more Antifa rioters did the Networks pay to stage that shooting and film it?

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at February 17, 2021 09:57 AM (Ndje9)

494 How is it that I, a rube from flyover country Michigan knew of the "very fine people" quote but he, a respected well educated lawyer did not???

Posted by: Bill R. at February 17, 2021 10:01 AM (wzzJf)

495 How is it that I, a rube from flyover country Michigan knew of the "very fine people" quote but he, a respected well educated lawyer did not???
Posted by: Bill R. at February 17, 2021 10:01 AM (wzzJf)
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Because you're a flyover rube. In America, people talk to each other. Even if you didn't see it live, the odds are good that *someone* with whom you interacted knew the real story. In the insular parts of the country that rule us, however, no one ever discusses it. Truth doesn't penetrate the permiter.

"How did Bush win? Literally no one I know voted for him!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 10:06 AM (UZVEt)

496 Wait 'til he finds out Charlottesville was staged just like the Reichstag Congress fraud.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at February 17, 2021 10:06 AM (Ndje9)

497 Re: I wonder if you can get a small bank of them
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2021 08:01 AM

You can get portable ones like this:
https://tinyurl.com/yax4rnrp

Posted by: FriscoYoda at February 17, 2021 10:14 AM (+56GQ)

498 Actual Biden quote, from yesterday: "I wake up every morning, look at Jill, and say 'Where the hell are we?'"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at February 17, 2021 10:25 AM (nkc1K)

499 A: In Donald's house.

Get out.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at February 17, 2021 10:32 AM (Ndje9)

500 .

Posted by: DR.WTF at February 17, 2021 10:37 AM (AiZBA)

501 You may have missed it, but the NRCC is targeting 29 Democrats in the 2022 elections.

https://tinyurl.com/prwxddy8

They have a clear path back to a majority in the House and have more cash than the Democrats.

Malig-Nancy lost the Speakership once before. It's time to do it again.

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at February 17, 2021 11:12 AM (EMi53)

502 Sythetic beef is Soylent Green!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 17, 2021 11:57 AM (ynpvh)

503 Open Blogger, do you mean "inshalla," or "deo volente"? The Biblical God loves His enemies. Islam's god murders his enemies. Different gods make different followers. Hence Islam's daily record of mayhem, 1000s of British girls raped, etc. You invoke "allah" when you write "inshalla." The equivalent term, invoking the Biblical God, is "Deo volente," used for centuries, often abbreviated D.V.

Posted by: bradc at February 17, 2021 04:05 PM (l+AqB)

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